Gmail is a widely-used free e-mail service from Google—http://mail.google.com/. It allows you to read your mail via authenticated RSS feeds. We can parse the RSS feeds with the sender's name, and an e-mail with a subject. It will help us to have a look at the unread e-mails in the inbox, without opening the web browser.
Let's go through the shell script to parse the RSS feeds for Gmail to display the unread mails:
#!/bin/bash #Desc: Fetch gmail tool username='PUT_USERNAME_HERE' password='PUT_PASSWORD_HERE' SHOW_COUNT=5 # No of recent unread mails to be shown echo curl -u $username:$password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | \ tr -d '\n' | sed 's:</entry>:\n:g' |\ sed -n 's/.*<title>\(.*\)<\/title.*<author><name>\([^<]*\)<\/name><email>\([^<]*\).*/From: \2 [\3] \nSubject: \1\n/p' | \ head -n $(( $SHOW_COUNT * 3 ))
The output will be as follows:
$ ./fetch_gmail.sh From...