[ANN] libgmail 0.0.1 -- Gmail access via Python

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Fri Jul 2 03:40:16 EDT 2004


Follower wrote:
> Announcing initial version of a library to provide access to Gmail via
> Python.
> 
> Below is the code required to access Google's Gmail service from
> within Python. It is a first version so it's rough in places and will
> easily break if much is changed on the Gmail servers.
> 
> If there's sufficient interest I'll endeavour to continue work on it &
> find it a permanent home.
> 
> If someone wants to take this and save me the trouble of writing a
> IMAP proxy for Gmail, feel free. :-)

Just looking at the Gmail Agreement...

> You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other
> automated device, or manual process to monitor, or copy any content
> from the Service.

Rats. Seems like we're not even allowed to use a browser to read our 
mail :-)

Anyway this is cool, why not set up a sourceforge project? I am sure 
others will get involved

David



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