Quick note:

• Adobe needs some Perl developers urgently.
• Also, proficient developers with 2+ years (upto 15… but 15+ is also good…) experience needed.

If you’re interested, shoot me a mail.

Update : The above two requirements are separate.

I’ts amazing what you can whip up in just 15 minutes using CPAN (including reading the documentation).

!/usr/bin/env perl

use warnings;
use strict;

=head1 INTRODUCTION

Checks if there are new unread messages in your GMail Inbox.

=head1 USAGE

$ perl check_gmail.pl
1       Swaroop C H     Looks like check_gmail.pl works


=cut

######## Configuration

Change this to your correct username.

use constant GMAIL_USERNAME => "username";

Change this to your correct password.

use constant GMAIL_PASSWORD => "password";

#### Don't change anything below this.

use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::Atom::Feed;

my $fetcher = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$fetcher->agent("check_gmail.pl/0.01");

my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
    'GET'   => "https://mail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom",
);
$request->authorization_basic(GMAIL_USERNAME, GMAIL_PASSWORD);

my $response = $fetcher->request($request);

if (! $response->is_success())
{
    die("Unsuccessful in trying to talk to GMail");
}

my $content = $response->content;
my $feed = XML::Atom::Feed->new(\$content);
my @new_messages = $feed->entries();

my $i = 1;
foreach my $message(@new_messages)
{
    print join("\t", $i, $message->author->name,
                    $message->title), "\n";
    $i++;
}

The End

Update : Baishampayan Ghose quickly jotted down a Python version of this script.

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