What is the best way to automatically download multiple email attachments on gmail from multiple emails (a lot) (preferably with filtering by Sender/Title) on Ubuntu linux? Should I go with a firefox attachment or is getmail4 reliable, or should I try some programmatic way (I can do Ruby, but not many other languages)?
Consider reasking your question in a more specific manner. I managed to find
https://github.com/dcparker/ruby-gmail
and
https://github.com/nu7hatch/gmail
Both of these will allow you to access gmail with ruby, do a search and download the emails.
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Is there a way to way to get read receipt of sent mail?
Like which mail is read and which one is unread?
Using google apis Rest.
Read Receipt is no available in current version of google mail api.
provide third party solutions.
As of now Read reciept is not available.
but you can always write custom code to implement task.
Well, if you check the Gmail API documentation you cannot find any guides here that can achieve this. I found here a related SO question that try to use Apps Script in achieving this, but it seems that the Apps Script is also not applicable. I suggest you to file a feature request about this if you still want to do it with the Gmail api.
I would like to access Gmail's native API. Eg,
create a search folder
tag messages
other gmail-specific actions.
There's this similar question, however the question asker seems happy with developing contextual gadgets rather than actually accessing a user's email.
In before anyone mentions: IMAP and POP are generic, non search based protocols and do not provide full access to gmail. Neither gmail.com, nor any of the official Gmail native apps, use IMAP and POP.
Most webmail services have private, non-IMAP/POP APIs and protocols, eg, hotmail (back when it existed used HTTPMail which was reverse engineered and implemented by hotwayd).
I could run Android gmail with a proxy and attempt to reverse engineer the Gmail protocol itself, but I suspect others have had the same need in the past and may already have a solution.
I did find a list of client of Gmail clients on Gmail Agent API but they don't seem maintained past 2004.
Android's Gmail app is using Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) to push email messages/notifications and sync with the phone. I think that’s “the API” you are looking for. The bad news is that it is obviously very well protected.
You can get started for free with GCM's JSON REST API and use it for your push messaging projects, but forget about using it for your Gmail in the same fashion Google does. The only option for getting a similar efficiency would be using IMAP's IDLE extension, which uses also push.
Focusing on what you need, I think there are decent solutions for the use cases you have listed in your question… You could use a [**Google App Script**][4] or libs like [**GMail for Python**][5], which seems a valid option to me... from the [**GMail for Python GitHub**][6]:
Features
Search emails
Read emails
Emails: label, archive, delete, mark as read/unread/spam, star
Manage labels
If you are developing an Android mobile app Gmail Public Labels API could also be of your interest...
Hope it helps...
EDIT: Google just introduced its GMAIL API
Update June 2014: Google have announced access to the native gmail API.
The Gmail API gives you flexible, RESTful access to the user's inbox,
with a natural interface to Threads, Messages, Labels, Drafts, and
History. From the modern language of your choice, your app can use the
API to add Gmail features like:
Read messages from Gmail
Send email messages
Modify the labels applied to messages and threads
Search for specific messages and threads
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/
Is there a way to access a Gmail Mailbox using the google-api? I'm trying to do this from command line using Java FWIW.
I already have code in place that achieves this via IMAP so that is not what I'm looking for.
You can access GMAIL IMAPS and SMTP using XOAUTH authentication, see here :
https://developers.google.com/gmail/xoauth2_protocol
It is not really the google-api-java-client, it is plain IMAP/SMTP but authentication is OAUTH2.
After going through the Google API once again and considering this question did not get an answer in the past 6 days, I guess it is safe to say there is no other way aside from IMAP/S.
NOTE:
This question was initiated because I was told by numerous people that a certain Google API was available and preferable for this purpose. It seems they were all informed by the same person who was not able to show me his source of information and agreed that according to the documentation IMAP indeed is the only API available as of now.
This is for a company intranet app, so everyone is using firefox on XP and I can install whatever is needed.
We'd like to setup an email with a pre-made subject and attachment (similar to using mailto), but the mailto spec doesn't allow attachments.
Any ideas how it can be done? Perhaps using a ff extension?
update: The file is a network file at the company.
update: A good deal of customisation happens in each users outlook, signatures etc. that we'd like to keep.
You're probably much better off providing a form for the users to fill out and and doing the email from the web server. That will give you the most flexibility.
I might be missing something but I'm trying to implement a contacts retrieval mechanism akin to the one that is offered by Google for Yahoo and Hotmail. Both APIs seem to require the user to actually go to their sites to log in. The documentation is really convoluted for both. I was hoping someone has done this and can point me to a simple way (if there is one) to allow the user to log in directly in my app and then for me to go and fetch their contacts for them (preferably in XML, but JSON would also do nicely).
I currently have a Perl script that goes and gets the gmail stuff and works very nicely. I was (maybe wildly optimistically) hoping that Yahoo and Microsoft would have similarly useful mechanisms.
Check out Open Inviter: http://openinviter.com. It has Yahoo, Hotmail, and many more :)
Seems http://openinviter.com domain is no more. There are few other providers available in market out of which I liked https://socialinviter.com, give it a try.