Gmail Integration

[egordin]

This might be a silly question, is Gmail integration planned for
Precipitate? It'd be great to be able to search my Gmail messages
through spotlight!

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[Stuart Morgan]

Setting up Mail or another local email client to access your Gmail via
POP or IMAP will already make it searchable through Spotlight, so no,
it won't be part of Precipitate.

[rgr]

Actually I gotta agree with egordin. gmail integration would be
killer. so much so I'd be willing to donate $300 to this project if
you're interested in making it a deliverable.

[egordin]

See I was just gonna let it go, but rgr's message prompted me to
elaborate.

For those of us who do not use Apple's Mail.app client, and only use
the web interface, gmail integration into Precipitate would be the
perfect solution.

I believe that since the Gmail team worked so hard and did such a good
job on the web interface of Gmail, lots of users only use the web
interface. For those people, like me, this would be a great feature.

Thanks for you consideration and hard work.

[Stuart Morgan]

Supporting Gmail in Precipitate would require building the complete
receiving side of an email client (plus importer); that's a pretty
large and complex wheel to re-invent. I'm afraid I'm not interested in
writing and debug an email client.

If someone were to make a little app that can register to open Mail's
files and redirect them to the Gmail URL for that message, you could
set that as the default opener, set up Mail to download your Gmail
(then set it to auto-launch hidden at login, and ignore it forever),
and you'd be able to open messages in Gmail from Spotlight. That would
be a much, much simpler way of getting the same effect.

[rgr]

An alternative (nowhere near as nice as a spotlight plug-in) for
Firefox users

http://philwilson.org/blog/2004/12/search-your-gmail-in-firefox.html

[Chris Messina]

I actually use Mailplane -- and can imagine that Fluid's existing
support for Gears will help here -- that having access to my Gmail
account through Spotlight importers for Gears for Fluid or Mailplane
would be a step in the right direction here...

Mailplane also supports mailplane:// addresses, so you could even open
the search results in Mailplane itself, rather than the standard
browser.

Chris

[Miha Filej]

Actually it is enough to just run Mail.app in the background with your
gmail account configured and spotlight will index your messages.
Although I don't know if there is a way to hide the Mail.app
completely.

Miha

[pendolino]

there is kind of a way to hid running apps from the dock on mac OSX.
check out Dockless here: http://homepage.mac.com/fahrenba/programs/dockless/dockless.html

i've been using it for ages for random apps. works great. forget its
even there.