Gmail unread mail stats

A command line utility which uses gmail atom feed to get unread email statistics.

Installation

go get github.com/codegangsta/cli
go get github.com/DATA-DOG/gmail-stats

The binary gmail-stats will be installed in $GOPATH/bin which should be in your $PATH.

Usage

gmail-stats --help

Showing only count of unread messages

gmail-stats -u account@gmail.com -p secretpassword -c

Showing a list of unread messages

gmail-stats -u account@gmail.com -p secretpassword

Prints all unread messages separated by new lines:

Subject;From;Summary
Subject;From;Summary
Subject;From;Summary

Where

• Subject - is an email message subject
• From - is senders email address
• Summary - is a short summary of message body

Running as daemon

Gmail stats can be run as daemon. It will use send-notify standard linux notification system to send a notification if there are new unread emails. It does not bug you if unread email count is not changing, but will remind you on increase.

gmail-stats -u account@gmail.com -p secretpassword -d

By default it will check mailbox every 60 seconds, you can change this interval to 20 seconds for instance:

gmail-stats -u account@gmail.com -p secretpassword -d -i 20

You may use notify-osd or other utility set which integrates together with libnotify on all linux platforms.