NoisyGecko

I route my email through Gmail to an IMAP account because I like using IMAP clients a little better than Gmail. One problem I have is that if I read emails in an IMAP client that doesn't get reflected in Gmail. I have written up an initial script which will sync a couple of IMAP folders with my Gmail inbox. It isn't fancy or complete, but seems to work for most of my messages. It is a one way sync -- only marks messages read in Gmail -- and is fairly conservative.

• Only looks at subjects from IMAP and Gmail messages.
• Only looks at recent messages.
• Won't mark a Gmail thread "read" unless entire thread is "read" in IMAP.

Eventually I may fix it to actually do a two way sync between the two systems.

To use it:

1. Download and install the Python Gmail package libgmail:
   http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/
2. Set configuration values in the imap_gmail_sync.py script:
   
   # Configuration for IMAP server.
   imap_server = 'localhost'
   imap_user = 'user'
   imap_pw = '******'
   imap_folders = ['INBOX', 'X_Misc']
   
   # Configuration for Gmail account.
   gmail_session_file = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'],
   '.gmail_session')
   gmail_user = 'user'
   gmail_pw = '******'
3. Run the script. You can set the mode variable at the top to 'stdout'.
4. Boy is the Blogger editor bad!
   

You can download the script imap_gmail_sync.py