Summary

In this chapter, we covered the complete development of the Outlook email reply generator using Outlook and ChatGPT API with the state-of-the-art GPT-4 model. We learned how to retrieve email data from Outlook using the win32com library and display the email subjects in a drop-down menu using the tkinter library. We wrote the code to connect to the Outlook application, access the default email inbox folder, and retrieve the last 10 email subjects. We also covered the creation of the user interface, including the main window, the drop-down menu, and a label.

We also learned the process of building the reply() function, which retrieved email data from Outlook, generated AI-powered responses using the ChatGPT API, and displayed the generated reply in a separate window for reviewing and editing. The chapter also explained how to integrate the reply() function into the application and how to create a button in the user interface that triggers the reply() function. We also tested...