Working with MapiJournal in PST

Adding MapiJournal to PST

Create a New PST File and Add Subfolders showed how to create a PST file and add a subfolder to it. With Aspose.Email you can add MapiJournal to hte Journal subfolder of a PST file that you have created or loaded. Below are the steps to add MapiJournal to a PST:

1. Create a MapiJournal object
2. Set the MapiJournal properties using a constructor and methods.
3. Create a PST using the PersonalStorage.create() method.
4. Create a pre-defined folder (Journals) at the root of the PST file by accessing the root folder and then calling the add_mapi_message_item() method.

The following code snippet shows you how to create a MapiJournal and then add it to the journal folder of a newly created PST file.

Adding Attachments to MapiJournal

The following code snippet shows you how to add attachments to MapiJournal.

import os
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from aspose.email.mapi import MapiJournal

data_dir = "path_to_data_directory"
attach_file_names = [os.path.join(data_dir, "Desert.jpg"), os.path.join(data_dir, "download.png")]

journal = MapiJournal("testJournal", "This is a test journal", "Phone call", "Phone call")
journal.start_time = datetime.now()
journal.end_time = journal.start_time + timedelta(hours=1)
journal.companies = ["company 1", "company 2", "company 3"]

for attach in attach_file_names:
    journal.attachments.append(attach, open(attach, 'rb').read())

journal.save(os.path.join(data_dir, "AddAttachmentsToMapiJournal_out.msg"))