Fresh Hacker News | Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

▲Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON(github.com)

72 points by c4pt0r 9 hours ago | 3 comments

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 2 hours ago

I wonder though if also the Gmail interface supports something like this? It seems it's pretty fast at receiving email.

▲dataflow 27 minutes ago

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.

▲kosolam 1 hour ago

There is this generic tool: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya

▲love2read 4 hours ago

What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?

▲diggan 14 minutes ago

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.

▲maximevalette 4 hours ago

Basically any LLM

▲edm0nd 3 hours ago

Layer 8 autism

▲bravesoul2 2 hours ago

Tool is an insult when applied to a human...

▲yapyap 3 hours ago

AI, I presume (but I’m not sure) that the code “agent” they are using creates it.

▲basemi 3 hours ago

If I read it right, it's built on Gmail API

Are there any other provider agnostic tools with similar capabilities?

▲szszrk 2 hours ago

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