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Is there a console gmail notifier (for crontab -e / user)?

Hello,

I am looking for a console gmail notifier
Is there already some solutions?

Best regards

I don't know of anything specifically for GMail, but you could use any console POP3 or IMAP tool with GMail, you just need to enable support for one (or both) protocols in the GMail settings.

There is certainly some ways to make a backend to gmail-notifier. it has been coded in python or perl if i recall well

You could use a desktop widget.

Quote:

Originally Posted by worm5252 (Post 3791461)

You could use a desktop widget.

I thank you, but I have not X11, :( so it would be console based intended.

what about it?

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# name : checkmail.sh



# Username

echo "Eneter your gmail username: "

read login



# Password

echo ""

echo "Enter your gmail password: "

trap "stty echo; exit" 1 2 15 # able to restore stty setting, even on "Ctrl+C"

stty -echo

read passwd

stty echo

trap "" 1 2 15



if [ "$login" == "" -o "$passwd" == "" ]

then

        echo "Error: Username or password is empty."

        exit 65

fi



inbox=`wget -T 3 -t 1 -q --secure-protocol=TLSv1 --no-check-certificate \

--user=$login --password=$passwd \

https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom -O - | \

sed -ne '/fullcount/s:.*>\([0-9]\+\)/dev/null`

# Notice the 'x', it is from bounce shell

# to check whether it is null string or not, but it works in bash.

if [ ! x$inbox == x'' ]

then

        if [ ! $inbox -eq 0 ]

        then

                echo “$inbox new mails in your box.”

                Xdialog --msgbox "Please check your email!" 5 40 & # You may need to install Xdialog or comment it out

        else

                echo “No new mails found!”

        fi

else

        echo “Some error occurs!”

fi

I would propose to improve this script using an SSL encoding of hte password, interested?