Is it possible to get all emails from an inbox in GMail?

Question

Is it possible to get all of my emails from your GMail inbox rather than only unread email? My current PHP script only gets unread email but I want the whole inbox.

I am making use of PHP and CURL. Firstly, is it possible to do this?

If so, can someone give me some hints on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

Use an IMAP API.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312284/fetching-attachments-from-gmail-via-either-python-or-php

Answer 2

you might also check out ryan grove's larch project:

http://wonko.com/post/larch-syncs-messages-from-one-imap-server-to-another

it's made to sync imap accounts, but will give you an idea of how to use imap with ruby. (similar in other languages.)