Perl modules for Gmail

Josh McAdams, after a cool interview with Allison Randal, talked about Perl modules that he tried to use in order to pull off messages from his Gmail account. (Yeah, I know the podcast was in May: I'm slowly getting thru them :))He looked at Mail::Webmail::Gmail, WWW::Gmail, and Gmail::Checker. The last one was the only one that worked for him "out of the box". It was sorta funny tho', because I spent about two hours before listening to his podcast trying to work with Gmail via Net::SMTP::SSL. Unfortunately, I never got it to properly connect to Gmail, but (fortunately) I found out about Mail::Webmail::Gmail, and spent another half-hour making it work. Since I originally wanted to send mail from my Gmail account through a script, that was the only one I tried to get working out of the ones Josh mentioned (altho' I hadn't listened to his podcast yet :)).

Initially I didn't get it to work because the module was having trouble connecting with the SMTP server. Bummer. After fiddling around with it for a bit, I decided to do some googling. I finally got it working by finding an blog posting about it, and some guy named Julien put up a fixed Gmail.pm along with instructions to connect to Gmail these days (thank you Julien!). Anyway, sending mail has worked like a charm since then, so if you want to start scripting your Gmail stuff, you might want to check it out. Like I said before, I didn't check out other modules, but they may be better if you just want to check your mail and not send your mail.

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