Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/07/2010 02:32 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> 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.

Maybe the certificates are already somewhere in /usr/share?

> Looking at the getmail source?

Since getmail is written in Python?  Good idea!

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