.:Computer Defense:.

So over the past few weeks I've been playing around with gmail and python... and libgmail.

I've decided that more people should be introduced to this and the functionality of it, so I've created a small program to allow people to play around with it... It should run on any version of python, however, I've written it with Python 2.4 in mind and of course you'll require libgmail from the above link.

My script, checkgmail.py, provides the following functionality:

---Cut from help---
Usage: ./checkgmail.py

Options:
-a All messages
-r Only read messages
-u Only unread messages
-h Display this help message
Parameters:
-L Search only in a specific label (default: inbox)
Use ALL to search all folders
-F

To read the last message your girlfriend sent you, you could run something like this
checkgmail.py -u -F gf@hotmail.com -R -N 1

One important thing to remember is that whenever you parse unread messages, even if you don't display them... libgmail is still marking them read... don't let this confuse you when you revisit gmail through your browser.

Download checkgmail.py

Peace,
HT