lbmd-mail

A personal command-line tool for reading my own mailboxes.

lbmd-mail is a small program I wrote for myself. It reads the Google mailboxes I own and produces a short daily summary of what arrived, so that several accounts can be reviewed in one place instead of one browser tab each.

What it does

• Lists and searches messages across my own Gmail accounts.
• Reads the body of a message I select.
• Lists the labels on an account so a search can be written against them.

What it cannot do

• It cannot send, reply to or forward mail.
• It cannot delete, archive or modify anything in a mailbox.
• It requests read-only access only, through the gmail.readonly scope.

Who it is for

One person: me. There is no sign-up, no hosted service and no other user. It runs on a single machine I own and talks only to Google's API.