WWW-Scraper-Gmail version 0.01

This is a very simple interface into GMail. It is based off of the code by Ilia Alshanetsky (http://ilia.ws)

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

NOTES

This is my first perl module and was written quickly. There are bugs, and it is not done "correctly" I'm sure. If you have any suggestions, bug fixes, hate mail feel free to send it to kastner@gmail.com

I hope somone finds this useful.

you must have a file ~/.gmailrc. The format is as follows: [gmail]
username=<username>
password=<password>

you should chmod it 700 so it is not readable

FUNCTIONS

These are the functions in the Module, they may change, but it will be noted here

fetchMail()

        Returns an array of hash refs of all msgs in inbox (read and unread)
            {
                from    => ,
                subject => ,
                date    => ,
                blurb   => ,
                new     => 
            };
    outputMail()
        Spits out all unread mail from inbox in the format
            "$from$delim$subject$delim$time$delim$blurb\n";
        where $delim is either $ARGV[0] or ";;"

countMail()

returns the number of unread msgs from inbox

setPrefs({ Signature => "Sig", MaxPer => 25 });

sets some preferences

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

LWP
Crypt::SSLeay (or any SSL thingie for LWP) ENV
HTML::Entities

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

LICENSE... do what you want with it - I don't care. Claim its yours... whatever this was just a quick thing, have fun

Copyright (C) 2004 by Erik F. Kastner (kastner@gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.