Hacking Gmail

128 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail

Using the Library

The Mail::Webmail::Gmail module is remarkably simple to use and very thor-

ough. You’ll be using it extensively in the next few chapters, so here we shall just

summarize the options.

Logging In

The standard call for logging into Gmail session is:

my $gmail = Mail::Webmail::Gmail->new(username => ‘username’,

password => ‘password’, );

That call can also take some optional arguments. If given the details, you can use a

proxy server, and you can also encrypt the entire session as opposed to just the

login sequence. Call them all like so:

my $gmail = Mail::Webmail::Gmail->new(

username => ‘username’,

password => ‘password’,

proxy_username => ‘proxy_username’,

proxy_password => ‘proxy_password’,

proxy_name => ‘proxy_server’,

encrypt_session => 1

);

Once logged in, you can make requests for data and pass methods on the Gmail

Inbox. There are lots of methods that you can use.

The Other Functions

This chapter provides only a table of the available functions (see Table 7-4). They

are more fully explained as you use them in the rest of the book.

Table 7-4 The Functions Within Mail::Gmail::Webmail

Function What It Does

get_labels() Retrieves an array of the labels in the account.

edit_labels (label=> Creates the label ‘label name’.

’label_name’, action =>

‘create’);

edit_labels( label => Renames the label ‘label_name’to ‘renamed_label’.

‘label_name’, action =>

‘rename’, new_name =>

‘renamed_label’ );