[HN Gopher] Gmailtail - Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messa...
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       Gmailtail - Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output
       them as JSON
        
       Author : c4pt0r
       Score  : 125 points
       Date   : 2025-07-03 00:06 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | love2read wrote:
       | What tool makes these readme's for new github repos that are
       | bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?
        
         | maximevalette wrote:
         | Basically any LLM
        
         | edm0nd wrote:
         | Layer 8 autism
        
         | yapyap wrote:
         | AI, I presume (but I'm not sure) that the code "agent" they are
         | using creates it.
        
         | bravesoul2 wrote:
         | Tool is an insult when applied to a human...
        
         | diggan wrote:
         | Not specifically about readmes/GitHub repos, but I've noticed
         | some LLMs like Sonnet and GPT4.1 are really enthusiastic about
         | doing emoji-prefixed lists for some reason.
        
           | dewey wrote:
           | Trained on too many JS libraries.
        
         | sunrunner wrote:
         | I think this trend has been around for a while now (it started
         | to become more noticable for me at least a couple of years
         | ago).
         | 
         | At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool'
         | the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like
         | it's as expected as just having a README itself.
         | 
         | I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help
         | but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji
         | count and readability.
        
         | username135 wrote:
         | When ever I see tons of emojis in a list/faq/readme I first
         | think of LLM output.
        
       | basemi wrote:
       | If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API
       | 
       | Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar
       | capabilities?
        
         | szszrk wrote:
         | I guess JMAP was created to also deal with this. I'm not sure
         | how far are we in implementation on clients side.
         | 
         | https://jmap.io/spec.html
        
           | MangoToupe wrote:
           | I can't imagine google ever supporting something that useful.
        
       | 3r7j6qzi9jvnve wrote:
       | This just polls every x (default 30) seconds; if you use IMAP you
       | can do better with IDLE (e.g. I pipe `fetchmail --check` to
       | something that triggers a sync to immediately get new mails)
        
         | _flux wrote:
         | I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something
         | like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.
        
           | kosolam wrote:
           | There is this generic tool:
           | https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya
        
             | jrop wrote:
             | Thanks for this! Exactly what I was looking for.
        
             | toomuchtodo wrote:
             | _Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails_ -
             | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42366025 - December
             | 2024 (97 comments)
        
           | dataflow wrote:
           | There are pub/sub notifications but it's a bit of a pain to
           | get working. You need an HTTP endpoint the server can reach
           | for push notifications, I think, not long polling.
        
             | kevincox wrote:
             | The GMail web client definitely doesn't create an HTTP
             | endpoint to receive updates. But the API it uses is likely
             | proprietary and private (even if it was built on top of the
             | public API there would be a backend bridging the two)
        
               | dataflow wrote:
               | Sorry, yes, my comment was confusing. I was answering the
               | "how do I get faster notifications in a supported manner"
               | part rather than the "how does the Gmail web UI do this"
               | part.
        
       | worldsayshi wrote:
       | Is there any good library or tool that let's me
       | programmatically/easily or semi-automatically delete mail by
       | query in gmail? The built in tools are not good enough. Does
       | Thunderbird work with gmail nowadays?
        
         | jamespo wrote:
         | I use imapfilter: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
        
         | jeffbee wrote:
         | Easily done in Google Apps Script.
        
       | nathants wrote:
       | Just have SES put the email in s3, then do stuff.
        
         | gsibble wrote:
         | Oh yeah, I'd love to hold on to people's emails and be
         | responsible if they got leaked.
        
           | nathants wrote:
           | TTL=1day
        
       | nisegami wrote:
       | One step closer to fully closing the loop on using LLMs to
       | automate white collar work.
        
       | rubslopes wrote:
       | Is it just me, or is there a trend to make modern web
       | applications accessible on the terminal?
        
         | slantaclaus wrote:
         | "a resurgence with new tooling and polish"
        
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