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Created September 9, 2011 19:14
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  1. bollovan created this gist Sep 9, 2011.
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    #! /usr/bin/python2
    import os
    import string
    import urllib

    #Enter your username and password below within double quotes
    # eg. username="username" and password = "password"
    username = "user"
    password = "pass"

    com = urllib.urlopen("https://" + username + ":" + password + "@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom")

    temp = com
    msg = temp.read()
    index = string.find(msg, "<fullcount>")
    index2 = string.find(msg, "</fullcount>")
    fc = int( msg[ index + 11:index2 ] )

    if fc == 0:
    print "no new emails"
    else:
    print str(fc) + " new emails"