Hey Hey,

Since this forum hasn't been used in a while, it's time to use it again... here's my lastest bit of playing around... a small simple implementation of libgmail from http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/.

Of course you'll need to go there and download libgmail and have it available to the script...

Here's the code

Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
'''
Name: checkgmail.py
Created by: HTRegz ([email protected])
Date Created: April 27th, 2006
Functional Spec: Provide command line access to gmail.  Details and examples @ www.computerdefense.org)
'''

import libgmail, sys, getopt, getpass

def parseArgs():
    try:
        opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "aruhL:F:RSCQ:N:U:P:")
    except getopt.GetoptError:
        showHelp()
    global password
    global type
    global label
    global showMsg
    global address
    global showSubject
    global showCount
    global query
    global displayCount
    global username
    password = None
    type = "UNREAD"
    label = "inbox"
    showMsg = False
    address = None
    showSubject = False
    showCount = False
    query = None
    username = None
    displayCount = None
    for o, a in opts:
        if ( o == "-a" ):
            type = "ALL"
        elif ( o == "-u" ):
            type = "UNREAD"
        elif ( o == "-r" ):
            type = "READ"
        if ( o == "-L" ):
            label = a
        if ( o == "-F"):
            address = a
        if ( o == "-R" ):
            showMsg = True
        if ( o == "-S" ):
            showSubject = True
        if ( o == "-C" ):
            showCount = True
        if ( o == "-Q" ):
            query = a
        if ( o == "-U" ):
            username = a
        if ( o == "-P" ):
            password = a
        if ( o == "-N" ):
            displayCount = a
        if (o == "-h" ):
            showHelp()
    
def showHelp():
    print "Usage: "+ sys.argv[0] + " <option> <parameters>"
    print "\n"
    print "Options:"
    print "-a               All messages"
    print "-r               Only read messages"
    print "-u               Only unread messages"
    print "-h               Display this help message"
    print "Parameters:"
    print "-L <label>       Search only in a specific label (default: inbox)"
    print "                 Use ALL to search all folders"
    print "-F <address>     Only messages from a specific address"
    print "-R               Read the messages (display message content)"
    print "-S               Return the subject lines"
    print "-C               Display a message count"
    print "-Q <query>       Run the specified query (search)"
    print "-N               Number of messages to return (default: ALL)"
    print "-U <username>    GMail username"
    print "-P <password>    GMail Password (default: prompt)"
    sys.exit()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parseArgs()
    if ( username == None ):
        username = raw_input("Username: ")
    if ( password == None ):
        password = getpass.getpass("Password: ")
    ga = libgmail.GmailAccount(username, password)
    try: 
        
        ga.login()
    except libgmail.GmailLoginFailure:
        print "Login Failure: Unknown username/password."
        sys.exit()
    if ( type == "ALL" ):
        search = ""
    elif ( type == "READ" ):
        search = "is: read "
    else:
        search = "is: unread "
    if ( address != None ):
        search += "from: " + address + " "
    if ( label != None ):
        search += "in: "+ label + " "
    if ( query != None ):
        search  += query + " "
    tmp = ga.getMessagesByQuery(search, "allPages")
    counter = 0
    for thread in tmp:
        for msg in thread:
            counter += 1
            if ( showSubject == True ):
                print msg.subject
            if ( showMsg == True ):
                print msg.source
            if ( counter == displayCount ):
                break
        if ( counter == displayCount ):
            break
    if ( showCount == True ):
        print counter
You can find some examples and more information on my blog post related to it, I'll also have follow up examples in the next couple days.. -- http://www.computerdefense.org/?p=54

Peace,
HT