[ale] Gmailfs -- use gmail as a filesystem

[Michael D. Hirsch]

This is awesome--use gmail as a filesystem: 
http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem

 GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account 
as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE 
userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and 
libgmail to communicate with Gmail. 

GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, 
symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all 
your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail 
(e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.). 


The project uses libgmail http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/, which looks pretty 
cool itself.  You can setup proxies for gmail to mail it act like SMTP, POP, 
or ftp.  This might be a really cool way to setup a file sharing system.  Of 
course, it uses a centraal server so it might be easy to shut it down.

Michael