Hacking Gmail

134 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail

getQuotaInfo

The getQuotaInfomethod allows you to retrieve information on how much

storage you are taking up inside Gmail. It returns an array of megabytes used,

total megabytes available, and percentage of storage used.

getUnreadMsgCount

When invoked, the getUnreadMsgCountmethod returns an integer equal to the

number of unread messages within the Inbox:

new_messages = ga.getUnreadMsgCount()

Reading the First Message in the Inbox

Putting together the methods discussed so far, you can display the messages in the

Inbox, and information about the amount of storage you have left, with the code

in Listing 7-3.

Listing 7-3:Using Python to Display the First Message in the Inbox

#!/usr/bin/python2.3

import Libgmail

ga = Libgmail.GmailAccount(“[email protected]”,

“mymailismypass”)

ga.login()

folder = ga.getMessagesByFolder(‘inbox’)

for thread in folder:

print thread.id, len(thread), thread.subject

for msg in thread:

print “Message ID:”, msg.id

print “Message Number:”, msg.number

print “Message Subject:”, msg.subject

print msg.source

Keeping Your Powder Dry

The remaining methods —sendMessage, trashMessage, trashThread, getLabelNames,

createLabel, deleteLabel, renameLabel, and storeFile— are, apart from being self-

explanatorily named, covered in great detail in the remainder of this book.