Authentication

[Simon Forman]

bigodines wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm trying to learn python by making some small programs that could be
> useful for some bigger propouses. In fact, i've made a small "check
> latest-modified" for webpages and it's working great.
>
> The next step I would like to do is to check if I have new e-mails (I
> don't wanna read it from my program, i just wanna it to tells me "yes,
> you have new mail(s)" or "no".
>
> My question is, how do I log into my google account using urllib2 to
> check this? Does anyone have a sample script that I can use or
> something to help me?
>
> thanks in advice,
> Matheus

Gmail supports pop and smtp access.  See
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-poplib.html and
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-smtplib.html,  as well as
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13273 and
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287


Here's a simple pop script:
import poplib

me = 'your.username at gmail.com'
p = '*******' # put your real password of course..

host ='pop.gmail.com'

pop = poplib.POP3_SSL(host)

try:
    pop.user(me)
    pop.pass_(p)
    message_count, mailbox_size = pop.stat()
    # Do some more stuff here...
finally:
    pop.quit()

print message_count, mailbox_size


And a simple smtp script:
import smtplib

me = 'your.username at gmail.com'
p = '*******' # put your real password of course..

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

try:
    server.ehlo()
    server.starttls()
    server.ehlo()
    server.login(me, p)
    # Do some more stuff here...
finally:
    server.close()


HTH,
~Simon