Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> Does anyone have an example of how to do this?  Google hasn't helped, 
> specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be.
>
> Google *did*, though, help me with fetchmail, so now I have the relevant 
> pem files.
>
> $ dir .certs/
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x   2 me me  4096 2010-05-06 15:13:16 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 205 me me 36864 2010-05-06 15:10:01 ../
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 me me     9 2010-05-06 11:11:20 34ceaf75.0 -> gmail.pem
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 me me    11 2010-05-06 11:11:20 594f1775.0 -> equifax.pem
> -rw-r--r--   1 me me  1162 2009-05-04 18:56:06 equifax.pem
> -rw-r--r--   1 me me  1224 2010-05-06 10:51:08 gmail.pem

I just set up getmail do do this.
That seemed a lot simpler than fetchmail withh the certificates.
Looking at the getmail source?

Hugo