Ed's World » email http://www.jellard.co.uk Bringing data into real life in a meaningful way Fri, 14 May 2010 15:00:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Improved Google mail number of unread emails script http://www.jellard.co.uk/2010/01/improved-google-mail-number-of-unread-emails-script/ http://www.jellard.co.uk/2010/01/improved-google-mail-number-of-unread-emails-script/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:20:17 +0000 Ed http://www.jellard.co.uk/?p=173 Since writing “Get number of unread posts from google mail”, I realised that I didn’t care about a lot of emails that I get on a regular basis, things like ebuyer emails, stock-market alerts etc. I only want to be notified when I’ve got emails from real people.

By applying a “Newsletters” label on GMail to all automated messages by filtering messages, I can now see how many unread emails I have, then subtract the number of unread newsletters I have, and flash the ambient light that number of times.

Grab getGoogleMail.sh, change the usernames and passwords, and change “Newsletters” to whatever your google label is. Then use the $count variable to do whatever you want.

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