======== gmail.py ======== This script uses Google's atom feed to retrieve unread messages in your gmail account. urllib takes care of the username and password handling, since I figure they'd do a better/safer job of it that I could. **NOTE** Taken from the urllib documentation page, regarding urllib.open(): Warning: When opening HTTPS URLs, it does not attempt to validate the server certificate. Use at your own risk! The last line in gmail.py: print '%s at %s: %s <%s> wrote "%s"' % (sdate, stime, \ k.find(name).text, k.find(email).text, k.find(title).text) is what actually prints the output and can easily be changed with even a rudementary understanding of Python for different formats. If any other information is required from the XML file, the variables defined towards the end with purl.org in their string can be used. Usage ===== Usage: gmail.py [options] [username1] [username2] ... Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -u USERNAME, --username=USERNAME your gmail username. use this if you also want to specify the password on the command line. otherwise simply pass the usernames as arguments -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD your gmail password -s, --summary prints the summary text that is generally visible in your gmail inbox [default: False] -n PRINTCOUNT print 'n' messages -a, --all prints all messages in your inbox