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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/https'
require 'rexml/document'
require 'time'

@username = "" # (without @gmail.com)
@password = ""

http = Net::HTTP.new('mail.google.com', 443)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
http.ca_path = '/etc/ssl/certs'

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/mail/feed/atom')
request.basic_auth(@username, @password)

doc = REXML::Document.new(http.request(request).body)

begin
  @messages = doc.elements.to_a("//entry").map do |e|
    {:subject => e.elements["title"].text,
     :summary => e.elements["summary"].text,
     :from => e.elements.to_a["author"].map do |a|
       {:name => a.elements["name"].text,
        :email => a.elements["email"].text}
     end[0],
     :date => Time.xmlschema(e.elements["issued"].text),
     :link => e.elements["link"].attributes["href"]}
  end
rescue
end
@count = doc.root.elements["fullcount"].text.to_i

puts @count