Accessing User Created Folders Contents about exchangelib

[ecederstrand]

Getting to the folder named 'Undeliverable' is a little bit clunky. You need to do this:

my_folder = None
for k, v in account.folders.items():
    for f in v:
        if f.name == 'Undeliverable':
            my_folder = f
            break
    if my_folder:
        break

assert my_folder

If you already know the folder class of your folder, e.g. Messages, you can shorten this to:

for f in account.folders[Messages]:
    if f.name == 'Undeliverable':
        my_folder = f
        break
else:
    raise Exception('Folder not found')

There should probably be an easier way to do this.

[ecederstrand]

I just committed a change so you can do:

my_folder = account.root.get_folder_by_name('Undeliverable')

Change root to another folder if 'Undeliverable' is not located under root.

[MartinThoma]

for f in account.folders[Messages]:

It would be nice to add

 from exchangelib.folders import Messages

(Related to https://stackoverflow.com/q/45935701/562769 )

[ecederstrand]

I've thought about this before, but then it would only make sense to import all the other folders types, and that would pollute the top-level import quite a bit. So for this atypical use case I think it's ok to do from exchangelib.folders import Message.

Anyway, the account.folders dict feels like a hack. I'd prefer to find a better solution to accessing the folder structure in #110