Accessing gmail account via POP3

ruby-talk
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Has anyone written any Ruby code for accessing their gmail account that
they would be willing to share?

Here are the requirements according to google:

pop.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 995

Phil

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Would this help?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/pop/rdoc/classes/Net/POP3.html

Douglas

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On Apr 5, 2005 4:59 PM, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:

Has anyone written any Ruby code for accessing their gmail account that
they would be willing to share?

Here are the requirements according to google:

pop.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 995

Phil

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Has anyone written any Ruby code for accessing their gmail account
that they would be willing to share?

Here are the requirements according to google:

ruby-core#2703 and ruby-core#2745 include patches to add ssl support to
Net::POP3. from the thread, it looks like it was checked in, but maybe
into 1.9 only?

i imagine you could use the patches as a guide and write a small wrapper
class that sets up the SSLSocket to gmail...

doug

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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:59:45AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:

pop.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 995

Phil

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Phil Tomson wrote:

Has anyone written any Ruby code for accessing their gmail account that they would be willing to share?

Here are the requirements according to google:

pop.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 995

I have a bit of code that might help. I briefly tried Kapsules since it had Ruby support but I found it to be unstable, slow and resource intensive. But while I was using it I needed to get the Mail Kapsule using SSL and since it was written in Ruby I added the necessary support. Of course ruby-1.8 doesn't support SSL but the CVS version does so I sort of backported it (my version is a bit simpler, therefore the interface is different). The great thing is with Ruby this backport only took about 1 hour! Anyway I have attached my modified mail kapsule file. You don't need all the kapsule stuff. Just the stuff at the end where I add added the SSL POP3 support. I included the entire script so you can see how the code should be used (plus I'm too lazy to cut out just the parts you need).

Eric

kapmail.kap (9.53 KB)

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Douglas Livingstone wrote:

Would this help?

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/pop/rdoc/classes/Net/POP3.html

It doesn't support SSL, does it? I couldn't find anything about it in the docs. I tried this about a week or two ago, and was unable to get it to authenticate me without SSL.