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Sharepoint 2007 web part to access Gmail

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  • 01-02-2008 2:06pm
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    John_Mc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I will be starting a new project soon which has a requirement to display new emails from a users gmail account. I would assume that this is technically possible but I can't find any documentation on the Gmail API (if it even exists)

    Any suggestions as to how I can go about doing this?


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    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    AFAIK there isn't a publically available API for gmail. Not a google one anyway, there are some 3rd party ones such as http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-api I don't know if they're any good or not.

    You might be also be able to work out something using the RSS viewer in sharepoint, audiences, and the gmail ATOM feed. That would be very cool if it worked, but I think the difficulty would be in authenticating for each users inbox.

    Gmail also provides mail via IMAP and POP so possibly work something around that ?


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    Like Stevenmu said above, try something with the RSS feed.

    Only thing i can think of is if you you use the web part make sure there is a personal storage section for each user so that they can say their authentication details.

    Also have a look at this http://www.codeproject.com/KB/gadgets/GadgetInterop.aspx

    Its a GMail reader for the sidebar so I am sure it can give you some ideas anyways.


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    John_Mc
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭John_Mc


    Nice one guys, many thanks for the replies!

    That article is interesting and could come in handy, thanks for the link. I think I'll approach this using POP or IMAP as it would be easiest.

    John


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