How to read e-mails from GMail/GoogleApps using C++ or C#?

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Wagner

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Jul 25, 2008, 10:00:01 AM7/25/08
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How to read e-mails from GMail/GoogleApps using C++?
Where do I start do search for it? Any hint?
I need to create a client em C++ or C# to read e-mails from GMail/
GoogleApps!
Thanks!

Jeff Fisher (Google)

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Jul 25, 2008, 1:05:14 PM7/25/08
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Hi,

I would think you could find some kind of IMAP or POP3 library for C#/C
++. There is not a Data API for GMail though.

Cheers,
-Jeff

Wagner

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Jul 25, 2008, 1:10:32 PM7/25/08
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Hey, I discovered this:
http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

Did you know it?

Thanks

Jeff Fisher

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Jul 28, 2008, 3:36:03 PM7/28/08
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Hi,

The GMail feed is not a Data API, I think it's just a regular Atom feed with HTTP Basic Auth.

Cheers,
-Jeff

isr-shn

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Jul 31, 2008, 5:45:10 PM7/31/08
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Hi.

Should we understand that Google does not permit writing an
independent Gmail client application?

Regards, isr.shn

On Jul 28, 10:36 pm, "Jeff Fisher" <api.jfis...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The GMail feed is not a Data API, I think it's just a regular Atom feed with
> HTTP Basic Auth.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff
>

Jeff Fisher

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Jul 31, 2008, 6:38:37 PM7/31/08
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Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean. What is a "Gmail client application"? Are you talking about a mail reader or are you talking about some of GMail's functionality beyond what can be done with POP3/IMAP? As far as what is "permitted", I assume the GMail Terms of Use covers this:

http://www.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html

Cheers,
-Jeff

isr-shn

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Aug 3, 2008, 7:31:56 AM8/3/08
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Hi.

I mean a desktop application (Windows executable) which permits send/
receive mail for a user's Gmail account.
That can be done, for example, with Outlook when you configure it
properly. I want to implement my own C# program for this but without
programming POP/SMTP or IMAP.
Searching the Internet and reading Google API docs didn't help much. I
thought that installing the .NET Client Library with samples will make
my task easy but unfortunately this was not the case. All available
sources deal with Calendar, etc. but I couldn't find any C# sample
to read user's Google mails. From what I saw already and from what you
Jeff wrote recently I understand that Google is not totally open
and the Google team doesn't offer any "high level" open source
solution to read/write Google mail as it does with Calendar.
If this is not true, please, show me a piece of C# code which (using
Google .NET Client Library) makes user login to Gmail and retrieves
his mails.

Regards, isr.shn


On 1 אוגוסט, 01:38, "Jeff Fisher" <api.jfis...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > >> > Thanks!-הסתר טקסט מצוטט-
>
> -הראה טקסט מצוטט-

Jeff Fisher (Google)

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Aug 4, 2008, 2:00:35 PM8/4/08
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Hi,

Since there are industry standard protocols for sending/retrieving e-
mail, I don't really see a huge benefit from providing a Data API for
GMail. Perhaps you could find some C# code for working with IMAP or
POP3?

Cheers,
-Jeff
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