Mount Gmail in Ubuntu

[MadsRH]

Hi
I've heard that it is possible to mount your Gmail account as a drive in Linux.
Can anyone provide me with a linux-newbie guide to do this?

I was hoping that it was as simple as finding it in Add/Remove programs, but no

[bmac]

I think this will help...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ight=ssl+gmail

[kostkon]

Hi
I've heard that it is possible to mount your Gmail account as a drive in Linux.
Can anyone provide me with a linux-newbie guide to do this?

I was hoping that it was as simple as finding it in Add/Remove programs, but no

You'll need to install the gmailfs package. Just search for it in Synaptic and then install it.

[sdennie]

I was able to get it working doing the following:

sudo apt-get install gmailfs
cp /etc/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf ~/.gmailfs.conf
chmod 600 ~/.gmailfs.conf

Then, edit the file ~/.gmailfs.conf to give it your username and password for gmail. After that, I was able to mount it using:

mkdir gmail
mount.gmailfs none gmail

[xtigma]

Hey Hello. that sounds interesting. I will try it as soon as anyone answer me something.

Does it open in Firefox, Nautilus or Thunderbird (or any mail program as Evolution) ?

Thanks in advance.

[michael2706]

sorry for the noob question, but what does mounting your gmail actually do differently than just setting the account up in evolution? i.e., whats the point of doing it?

[sdennie]

That will mount it as if it's a hard drive so, you'll be able to treat it just like a disk in nautilus or the terminal.

[MadsRH]

vor -> That is a really great guide It looks like it is working, but when I try to copy files I get a Python error and I get these weird email with the subject "b=1209420390 x=0 q=__g__linux_fs_3"

[sdennie]

Those e-mails are normal actually. It's treating your gmail account as a disk but, doing it by sending yourself e-mails. You should be able to make a gmail filter to automatically archive and mark as read emails with that have that "__g__linux_fs_3" string in the subject.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure what the python error is. Things seem to be working fine for me so far.

[asgard_command]

There is also a Firefox extension called Gspace which makes it very easy to use your gmail space as a file system storage area in this way.
I haven't tried it under Firefox 3 yet so can't confirm whether it is yet compatible with that.