John Winter wrote me recently to let me know about a GMail notification program he has written for Linux. He modeled his effort after Google’s notifier. John’s code is written in Python and uses libGMail. Source code is therefore available. Plus, Python rocks.
Source: Gmail Notify for Linux

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Just a few more applications and GMail will be a full-service office suite. GMail ToDo is a ToDo list maintained in your GMail account. It uses Python and Gnome to present an interface under Linux. Whatever you do, don’t kill Pat!
Source is available.
Source: GMail ToDo List via [Mark Lyon's GMail page]

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Developed by Richard Jones, GMailFS is a mountable file system for your favorite Linux distribution. The mounted file system supports most unix file system commands. It builds upon the FUSE Userland file system infrastructure and libgmail, the Python GMail API. As impressive as the utility is in and of itself, it was [...]

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More Pythonic sweetness. This library provides Pythonic access to your GMail account. The example exports to mbox format. Sounds like a great start to an offline synchronization tool.
UPDATE:
I received an update via the Python Announce list of changes to libgmail today and then I checked my mail and the author [...]

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Adrian Holovaty has whipped up a Python script that will export all messages in your GMail inbox. His script provides a starting point for a complete export utility.
Scripting Language: Python
gmail.py (Source: Adrian Holovaty

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Ian has thrown together a PyKDE script that provides an Inbox notification in the KDE system tray using Adrian Holovaty’s gmail.py. Early version, has some issues.
Operating System: Linux w/Python
KNewGmail.py (Source: Adrian Holovaty

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Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri has built upon the gmail.py script to provide a contacts importer for GMail. The program imports a CSV file (comma delimited) from a Yahoo export and then imports those contacts into GMail. Note: Gustavo based the program around importing a Brazilian Yahoo mail export file. You will likely need [...]

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Again, it’s a shame to leave that 1GB of storage empty for long. Cheah Chu Yeow over at Redemption in a Blog was inspired by Mark’s GML work and threw together another Python executable for GMail importing. His program is graphical and offers one additional feature over Mark’s - the ability to prepend [...]

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All that space and nothing to put in it… Mark Lyon has put together an import utility that will import your mail from an existing mail program that utilizes the mbox or maildir format. Typical programs that utilize the mbox format are Netscape, Mozilla, Pocomail, etc. Maildir is more typically found being used [...]

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