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Testing GMailFS

After being invited by Daryl to GMail, i took 15 minutes to get FUSE / libgmail / GmailFS working out of the box :)

It's quite amusing to mount a FS like this !! Even if gmail is not intended for that it rules.

Copying one 8Mb file to the gmail-space gives me following mails in my inbox:

/static/GMailFS1.png

I guess there is one mail per block and each mail has an attached file of BIN mime-type. Uploading this file has been quite long though (about 2 minutes), but i don't think i'll put 1Gb of mails there, so space has to be used anyway :)

Even better, notice the NTFS ad on the right:

/static/GMailFS2.png

by Philippe Normand on Tue Aug 31 00:48:31 2004 (Viewed: 5533 / 3 comments )
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#.   Nihar on Sun Nov 7 07:01:24 2004

Hi,

Can this same thing be implemented for rediffmail? which also has storeage space of 1gb?

cya Nihar

#.   phil on Mon Nov 8 09:20:57 2004
Do they provide a nice WebServices API like GMail ? If not, my guess is that it will be hard to implement a GmailFS like system ..
#.   mp3 dj on Wed Mar 15 13:18:04 2006

he he,good article,thanks...

http://mp3djay.com

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