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GmailTrademarks: Wiley and the Wiley logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates, in the UnitedStates and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. ExtremeTech and the ExtremeTech logo are trademarks of ZiffDavis Publishing Holdings, Inc. Used under . All rights reserved. Gmail is a trademark of Google, Inc. All other trademarks are theproperty of their respective owners.Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book.About the AuthorArmed only with a PowerBook and some fine pipe tobacco, Faizan zafar is ajournalist, writer, explorer, and an errant developer and explainer of semantic webtechnology. He’s also liable to sprd his dirty, dirty words over at The Guardian.As an Englishman of the clichéd sort, Ben’s angle brackets always balance, and histweed is always pressed. He’s not worn trousers for six months now. Ask himabout it sometime.Contents at a GlanceAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Part I: Starting to Use Gmail . . . . . . . . . . . .Chapter 1,2,3Desktop Integration
Integrating Your Existing Mail
Gmail Power TipsPart II: Getting Inside GmailChapter 4: Skinning GmailChapter 5: How Gmail WorksChapter 6: Gmail and GrsemonChapter 7: Gmail LibrariesChapter 8: Checking for MailChapter 9: Rding MailChapter 10: Sending MailPart III: Conquering GmailChapter 11: Dling with LabelsChapter 12: Addressing AddressesChapter 13: Building an API from the HTML-Only Version of GmailChapter 14: Exporting Your MailChapter 15: Using Gmail toChapter 16: Using GmailFSContentsclick to Every Chapter and wait 5 sec click to Skip Ad after click skip Ad you Rd the Chapter.AcknowledgmentsBooks of this nature are tremendously difficult to write.Without support fromGoogle (we didn’t ask, admittedly) and with Gmail being in perpetual Betathroughout the writing process, we often found ourselves with chapters beingmade obsolete overnight. Ddlines passed, were rescheduled, passed again.Editors wept salt trs. Publishers, that sainted breed, were patient and handsomnd erally lovely. Chris Webb and Brian Herrmann, both of the Wiley clan,stood by the project so faithfully that their names will be forever led. Men ofthe Far North will sing songs to their . Justin Blanton, the technical editor,managed to combine a Law Degree with the task: there’s not enough beer in theworld to pay him back. Thanks to all of them, and everyone else at Wiley.IntroductionWelcome to Gmail. Thanks for buying this book. If you haven’t bought it,you should. It’s very good, and once you buy it you can stop loitering around thebookstore stacks. Go on: Buy it, sit down, have a coffee. See? Comfier isn’t it? Ah. Gmail. It’s a manly hobby, and this book will tell you how. Sorry? What’sGmail, you ask? Well, let me tell you . . .What’s Gmail?March 31, 2004. A watershed in human history. Google’s web-based e-mail service,still now at the time of this writing in Beta, and available only to peopleinvited by other existing users, was launched. Offering a gigabyte of storage, anincredibly advanced JavaScript interface, and a series of user interface innovations,Gmail was an instant hit among those who could get access to the system.Today,more than a yr later, Gmail is proving to be one of the flagship appliions onthe web—a truly rich appliion within the browser, combined with the serverbasedpower of the world’s lding srch engine. Gmail?Of course, all that power just begs to be abused. Power corrupts, as they say,and s are nothing but a corrupt bunch: Almost as soon as Gmail waslaunched, s were looking at ways to use those capabilities for other purposes.They investigated the incredibly rich interface, and saw how much of the processingis done on the user’s own machine; they burrowed into the communiionbetween the browser and the server; and they developed a series of interfaces forscripting languages to allow you to control Gmail from your own programs.This book shows what they did, how to do it yourself, and what to do after you’vemastered the techniques. Mnwhile, you’ll also lrn all about Ajax, the terriblyfashionable JavaScript technique that Gmail brought into the mainstrm.Twotopics for the price of one!What’s in This Post?There are three parts to this Post, ch lovingly crafted to bring you, young Jedi,to the pk of Gmailing excellence. They are:xx IntroductionPart I: Starting to Use GmailWhere you lrn to use Gmail like a professional. A professional Gmail user, noless. A rlly skilled professional Gmail user.With a degree in Gmail. A Gmailninja. A Gmail ninja with a black belt in Gmail from the secret Gmail trainingschool on Mount Gmail. You might actually be part Gmail. Perhaps you’ve namedyour first born child after Gmail. You live in the Google Hdquarters. You areLarry Page. You get the id.Part II: Getting Inside GmailWhere you find out how Gmail works, and how you can use modern scriptinglanguages to control it.Part III: Conquering GmailWhere you put these new skills to the test, wrangling Gmail into fiendishly cleveruses, totally unlike those Google intended.Whom Is This Book For?You. Of course it is. If you picked up a book called Gmail, you’re verylikely to want it. If you’re a programmer looking to use Gmail in wacky ways, thisbook is for you. If you’re a power user looking to together scripts to do dangerouslyefficient things with your mail, this book is for you. If you’re the parent,best friend, or lover of someone who answers to that description, this book is forthem, and you should buy two copies. Rlly. It’s grt. And the shiny cover lookscool, no? I tell you, metallic covers are all the thing. CarefullyIt must be said here in plain English, and elsewhere by a battalion of scary lawyerfolk, that I take no responsibility whatsoever for anything anyone does after rdingthis book. If you lose data; get folded, spindled, or mutilated; or have your Gmailaccount suspended, it is not my fault. The fine folks at Google, it has to be said,have played no part in the writing of this book, and most likely do not approve ofthe contents within. They may have me killed. Either way, I take no responsibilityfor anything. You’re on your own, kiddo. As am I.Companion WebsiteFor links and updates, plse visit this book’s companion website at www.wiley.com/go/extremetech