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Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

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3r7j6qzi9jvnve8 hours ago

This just polls every x (default 30) seconds; if you use IMAP you can do better with IDLE (e.g. I pipe `fetchmail --check` to something that triggers a sync to immediately get new mails)

_flux6 hours ago

I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.

dataflow5 hours ago

There are pub/sub notifications but it's a bit of a pain to get working. You need an HTTP endpoint the server can reach for push notifications, I think, not long polling.

kosolam6 hours ago

There is this generic tool: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

nathants3 hours ago

Just have SES put the email in s3, then do stuff.

love2read9 hours ago

What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?

diggan5 hours ago

Not specifically about readmes/GitHub repos, but I've noticed some LLMs like Sonnet and GPT4.1 are really enthusiastic about doing emoji-prefixed lists for some reason.

dewey3 hours ago

Trained on too many JS libraries.

maximevalette9 hours ago

Basically any LLM

edm0nd8 hours ago

Layer 8 autism

bravesoul26 hours ago

Tool is an insult when applied to a human...

yapyap8 hours ago

AI, I presume (but I’m not sure) that the code “agent” they are using creates it.

worldsayshi4 hours ago

Is there any good library or tool that let's me programmatically/easily or semi-automatically delete mail by query in gmail? The built in tools are not good enough. Does Thunderbird work with gmail nowadays?

basemi8 hours ago

If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API

Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar capabilities?

szszrk7 hours ago

I guess JMAP was created to also deal with this. I'm not sure how far are we in implementation on clients side.

https://jmap.io/spec.html

nisegami3 hours ago

One step closer to fully closing the loop on using LLMs to automate white collar work.