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

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143 points c4pt0r | 3 comments | 03 Jul 25 00:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source
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3r7j6qzi9jvnve ◴[03 Jul 25 05:39 UTC] No.44451962[source]▶
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)
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_flux ◴[03 Jul 25 07:35 UTC] No.44452574[source]▶
I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.
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1. dataflow ◴[03 Jul 25 09:08 UTC] No.44453089[source]▶
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.
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2. kevincox ◴[03 Jul 25 13:47 UTC] No.44455050[source]▶
The GMail web client definitely doesn't create an HTTP endpoint to receive updates. But the API it uses is likely proprietary and private (even if it was built on top of the public API there would be a backend bridging the two)
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3. dataflow ◴[03 Jul 25 13:53 UTC] No.44455122[source]▶
Sorry, yes, my comment was confusing. I was answering the "how do I get faster notifications in a supported manner" part rather than the "how does the Gmail web UI do this" part.