These projects are already pretty advanced versions of this: https://github.com/jamesyu/gmailr https://github.com/jamesyu/gmailr and https://github.com/joscha/

These projects are already pretty advanced versions of this: https://github.com/jamesyu/gmailr https://github.com/jamesyu/gmailr and https://github.com/joscha/gmailui https://github.com/joscha/gmailui In fact gmailr is used in "Cloudy" - one of the more advanced gmail plugins.