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Commands tagged gmail

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curl -su username:passwd https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | xmlstarlet sel -N x="http://purl.org/atom/ns#" -t -m //x:entry -v 'concat(position(), ":", x:title)' -n
2012-05-05 14:34:55
User: kev
Tags: curl xmlstarlet gmail
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print unread gmail message
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curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n";RS="(</entry>\n)?<entry>"}NR!=1{print "\033[1;31m"$9"\033[0;32m ("$10")\033[0m:\t\033[1;33m"$2"\033[0m"}' | sed -e 's,<[^>]*>,,g' | column -t -s $'\t'
2011-10-15 23:15:52
User: frntn
Functions: awk column sed
Tags: Linux sed awk column curl rss gmail
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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Just an alternative with more advanced formating for readability purpose. It now uses colors (too much for me but it's a kind of proof-of-concept), and adjust columns.

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while sleep 30; do tput sc;tput cup 0 $(($(tput cols)-15));echo -n " New Emails: $(curl -u username:password --silent https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | grep 'fullcount' | grep -o '[0-9]\+')";tput rc; done &
2011-09-07 08:40:28
User: saze
Functions: echo sleep tput
Tags: grep curl gmail notify
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Displays the number of unread messages on your gmail at the top right corner of your terminal

Checks your gmail account every 30 seconds and display the number of new messages in the top right corner of the terminal.

A kind of CLI "Gmail notifier" if you will. :-)

This is a mashup of http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7916/put-a-console-clock-in-top-right-corner and http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3386/check-your-unread-gmail-from-the-command-line

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mailutil transfer {imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=john@gmail.com} Gmail/
2010-10-07 07:30:00
User: bogomips
Tags: mail gmail
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Backup (archive) your Gmail IMAP folders.

Copies an entire hierarchy of mailboxes from the named POP3/IMAP/etc. source to the named destination. Mailboxes are created on the destination as needed. NOTE: The 'mailutil' is Washington's University 'mailutil' (apt-get install uw-mailutils). More examples

mailutil transfer {imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=you@gmail.com}INBOX Gmail/ ; mailutil check imap.gmail.com/ssl/user=you@gmail.com}\[Gmail\]/Spam

If you use the utility in the first, append -v|-d flag(s) to the end the commands above (man mailutil).

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curl -n --ssl-reqd --mail-from "<user@gmail.com>" --mail-rcpt "<user@server.tld>" --url smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465 -T file.txt
2010-10-03 15:44:53
User: mitry
Tags: curl smtp gmail smtps
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Send email with curl and gmail

Required curl version >=7.21; using .netrc for authorization

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wget -O - 'https://USERNAMEHERE:PASSWORDHERE@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom' --no-check-certificate
2010-09-26 14:47:13
User: PLA
Functions: wget
Tags: Linux wget xml gmail atom
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Using wget to receive an XML atom feed of your Gmail inbox

I use this command in my Conky script to display the number of messages in my Gmail inbox and to list the from: and subject: fields.

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curl -s https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin -d Email=$email -d Passwd=$password -d service=lh2 | grep Auth | sed 's/Auth=\(.*\)/\1/'
2010-02-04 03:34:54
User: matthewbauer
Functions: grep sed
Tags: google api gmail google api google data google data api
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Get an authorization code from Google

This is a basis for other Google API commands.

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curl -u username --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | perl -ne 'print "\t" if /<name>/; print "$2\n" if /<(title|name)>(.*)<\/\1>/;'
2009-09-08 06:53:39
User: sitaram
Functions: perl
Tags: Linux perl curl rss gmail
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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

notice what happens when there is more than one unread message in a thread...

also people please dont hardcode the password when you use curl. Leave it out and curl will ask you when it runs. Please...?

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curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | sed -n "s/<title>\(.*\)<\/title.*name>\(.*\)<\/name>.*/\2 - \1/p"
2009-09-07 21:56:40
User: postrational
Functions: awk sed tr
Tags: Linux perl sed awk macosx curl rss gmail
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Check your unread Gmail from the command line

Checks the Gmail ATOM feed for your account, parses it and outputs a list of unread messages.

For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*<name>(.*)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'

If you want to see the name of the last person, who added a message to the conversation, change the greediness of the operators like this:

curl -u username:password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*?<name>(.*?)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'
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