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Title:

Hacking Gmail

Personal Author:

Hammersley, Ben

Publication Information:

Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Publishing, 2006

ISBN:

9780764596117

Subject Term:

Electronic mail systems

Internet programming

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The first book to unlock the true power behind Gmail, Hacking Gmail will immediately appeal to Google and Gmail fans This is serious, down-and-dirty, under-the-hood, code-level hacking that will have readers eliminating the default settings, customizing appearance, disabling advertising, and taking control over their Gmail accounts Covers turning Gmail into an online hard drive for backing up files, using it as a blogging tool, and even creating customized Gmail tools and hacks Shows readers how to check their Gmail without visiting the site; use Gmail APIs in Perl, Python, PHP, and other languages, or create their own; and maximize Gmail as a host for message boards, photo galleries, even a blog

Author Notes

Ben Hammersley is a journalist, writer, explorer, and an errant developer and explainer of semantic Web technology

Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Part I Starting to Use Gmail	p. 1
Chapter 1 Desktop Integration	p. 3
New Mail Notification	p. 3
Windows	p. 3
Mac OS X	p. 5
Linux, etc.	p. 5
Redirecting mailto	p. 6
Windows	p. 7
Multiplatform/Mozilla	p. 7
OS X	p. 8
GmailerXP	p. 8
And Now	p. 9
Chapter 2 Integrating Your Existing Mail	p. 11
Importing Your Mail into Gmail	p. 11
Gmail Loader	p. 11
Setting Up Pop Access Inside Gmail	p. 12
Setting Up Pop Within an Application	p. 13
IMAP for Gmail	p. 14
And Now	p. 14
Chapter 3 Gmail Power Tips	p. 15
Keyboard Shortcuts	p. 15
Plus Addressing and Filterin	p. 20
Other Addressing Tips	p. 21
Quickly Mark a Group of E-Mails	p. 23
Send Executables as Attachments	p. 23
Advanced Searching	p. 24
And Now	p. 26
Part II Getting Inside Gmail	p. 27
Chapter 4 Skinning Gmail	p. 29
Deconstructing Gmail	p. 29
The Top Section	p. 33
The Navigation Menu	p. 35
The Activity Area	p. 38
The Bottom Section	p. 42
Applying a New Style	p. 44
Creating Gmail Lite	p. 44
Walking Through the Style Sheet	p. 45
Removing Google's Advertising	p. 51
And Now	p. 51
Chapter 5 How Gmail Works	p. 53
What the Devil Is Going On?	p. 53
Preloading the Interface	p. 54
Introducing XMLHttpRequest	p. 55
Using XMLHttpRequest Yourself	p. 55
Finding XMLHttpRequest within the Gmail code	p. 61
Sniffing the Network Traffic	p. 62
Firing Up Tcpflow	p. 62
Prodding Gmail to Hear It Squeak	p. 67
Preparing to Watch the Gmail Boot Sequence	p. 67
Cleaning Up the Log	p. 68
Stepping Through the Gmail Boot Sequence	p. 68
Logging In	p. 69
The First Cookie	p. 71
Loading the Inbox	p. 74
Reading an Individual Mail	p. 81
And Now	p. 89
Chapter 6 Gmail and Greasemonkey	p. 91
What Is Greasemonkey?	p. 91
The Userscripts	p. 92
Displaying Bloglines Within Gmail	p. 92
How It Works	p. 100
Add a Delete Button	p. 101
GmailSecure	p. 108
MailtoComposeInGmail	p. 110
Other Userscripts	p. 114
Mark Read Button	p. 114
Multiple Signatures	p. 115
Hide Invites	p. 115
Random Signatures	p. 115
And Now	p. 115
Chapter 7 Gmail Libraries	p. 117
PHP - Gmailer	p. 118
Getting and Installing the Library	p. 118
How to Use It	p. 119
Perl - Mail::Webmail::Gmail	p. 127
Getting and Installing the Library	p. 127
Using the Library	p. 128
Python - Libgmail	p. 131
Getting and Installing the Library	p. 131
How to Use It	p. 132
Reading the First Message in the Inbox	p. 134
Setting Yourselves Up for the Remaining Chapters	p. 135
And Now	p. 136
Chapter 8 Checking for Mail	p. 137
The Basics in Perl	p. 137
The Basics in PHP	p. 139
The Basics in Python	p. 140
Building on the Basics	p. 142
New Mail Count in RSS	p. 142
New Mail Count to AOL Instant Messenger	p. 144
And Now	p. 149
Chapter 9 Reading Mail	p. 151
Reading Mail with Perl	p. 151
The Basics	p. 151
Accessing All the Data of a Message	p. 152
Listing the Mail and Displaying a Chosen Message	p. 153
Dealing with Attachments	p. 155
Making an RSS Feed of Your Inbox	p. 155
And Now	p. 159
Chapter 10 Sending Mail	p. 161
Sending Mail with Gmail SMTP	p. 161
Sending Mail with Perl	p. 162
And Now	p. 166
Part III Conquering Gmail	p. 167
Chapter 11 Dealing with Labels	p. 169
Listing the Existing Labels	p. 169
Setting New Labels	p. 173
Creating a New Label	p. 175
Removing Labels	p. 175
And Now	p. 176
Chapter 12 Addressing Addresses	p. 177
The Contacts List	p. 177
Importing Contacts	p. 178
Showing Your Current Contacts	p. 180
Exporting Contacts	p. 181
And Now	p. 182
Chapter 13 Building an API from the HTML-Only Version of Gmail	p. 183
A First Look at the HTML Version	p. 183
Introducing Basic Scraping	p. 186
HTML::TokeParser	p. 186
Parsing the Inbox	p. 188
Retrieving the Individual Page	p. 192
Dealing with Threads	p. 195
Dealing with Other Folders	p. 195
And Now	p. 196
Chapter 14 Exporting Your Mail	p. 197
Exporting as a Massive Text File	p. 197
Converting to Mbox	p. 199
Appending to IMAP	p. 200
And Now	p. 201
Chapter 15 Using Gmail to	p. 203
Using Gmail as a To-Do List	p. 203
Using Filters	p. 203
Using gmtodo	p. 205
Using Gmail to Find Information in RSS Feeds	p. 205
Using Gmail to Find Torrent Files	p. 206
Using Gmail as a Notepad	p. 207
Using Gmail as a Spam Filter	p. 209
An Even Simpler Way of Doing It	p. 210
Using Gmail as Storage for a Photo Gallery	p. 210
And Now	p. 211
Chapter 16 Using GmailFS	p. 213
The Underlying Idea	p. 213
Installing GmailFS	p. 213
The Correct Python	p. 213
Installing FUSE	p. 215
Installing Libgmail	p. 215
Installing GmailFS	p. 215
Using GmailFS	p. 216
Mounting GmailFS from the Command Line	p. 216
Mounting GmailFS from fstab	p. 217
Passing Commands to the File System	p. 217
How GmailFS Works	p. 218
What Makes Up a File?	p. 218
Representing All of This in E-Mail	p. 220
The Actual Data in Action	p. 220
And Now	p. 221
Appendix Long Code Listings	p. 223
Index	p. 275

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