gmail.rb

#  gmail.rb
#  script to fetch INBOX mails from an account 
# 
#  PROBLEM: I need to find all the EMAIL-ID and Phone number from a Media Agency's Gmail Account (upto certain number)
#  Solutions: 
#  1. run the script on some high speed internet server if possible 
#  2. Filter out relavant content from gmail.txt using shell (grep and vim)
# 
#  Created by Akshay Gupta on 2010-03-29.
#  Total time taken : 2 hours to complete the task

USERNAME = "gakshay"
PASSWORD = "password"
FILENAME = "gmail.txt"
SEARCH = 'INBOX'
SEARCH_OPTIONS = ["NOT", "DELETED"]
START_MESSAGE_ID = 1
LAST_MESSAGE_ID = 14555

require 'net/imap'
f = File.open(FILENAME, "w")
imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com','993',true)
imap.login(USERNAME,PASSWORD)
imap.select(SEARCH)
imap.search(SEARCH_OPTIONS).each do |message_id|
  message_id = message_id + START_MESSAGE_ID
  if message_id <= LAST_MESSAGE_ID
    temp = imap.fetch(message_id, "RFC822")[0].attr["RFC822"]
    f.write(temp+"\n")
    puts "Successfully here = " + message_id.to_s
  else
    break
  end
end
imap.logout()
imap.disconnect()
f.close