Hacking Gmail

216 Part III — Conquering Gmail

Listing 16-1 (continued)

#proxy = http://proxyhost:port

#retries = 3

[account]

username = gmailusername

password = gmailpassword

[filesystem]

fsname = linux_fs_3

[references]

# reference = filesystem:username:password

[logs]

# Change this to DEBUG for verbose output useful for debugging

level = INFO

Simply place your username and password in the obvious places, and copy the

entire file to /etc.

If you are behind a proxy, you will need to enter the details into gmailfs.confin

the obvious place and also install pyOpenSSLfrom http://pyOpenSSL.source

forge.net/, and pyOpenSSLProxyfrom http://richard.jones.name/

google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/pyOpenSSLProxy-0.1.tar.gz.

Once everything is installed, you are ready to use the system.

Chapter 16: Using GmailFS

There are two ways to launch the GmailFS: You can either mount it from the

command line or use fstab.

Mounting GmailFS from the Command Line

To mount from the command line, type this command, press return, and proceed

to the section “Passing Commands to the File System” a bit later:

mount -t gmailfs /usr/local/bin/gmailfs.py /gmailfs -o

fsname=XXXXX