Hacking Gmail

Chapter 7 — Gmail Libraries 127

Perl — Mail::Webmail::Gmail

CPAN, the directory of Perl modules, lists quite a few Gmail-related modules,

one of which is shown in Figure 7-2. But at time of this writing, the only one

working is Allen Holman’s Mail::Webmail::Gmail.

FIGURE7-2: A CPAN search resulting in a Gmail module

Getting and Installing the Library.

Mail::Webmail::Gmail is available from CPAN. You can download it directly
from http://search.cpan.org/~mincus/or use the command line like this:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Mail::Webmail::Gmail’

However installed, the module has a few dependencies that you will need to have

installed already:

LWP::UserAgent

HTTP::Headers

HTTP::Cookies

HTTP::Request::Common

Crypt::SSLeay

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