Tag: Google Talk

  • Google Talk Notification Extensions

    This document describes the XMPP extensions that notify clients about email in their Gmail account. Google does not intend for this extension to become a standard and so it is subject to change.

    Element or Attribute

    Translation

    <mailbox> Outer wrapper element for all email information.
    result-time The time these results were generated, in milliseconds since the UNIX epoch. This value should be cached and sent as the newer-than-time attribute in the next email query.
    total-matched The number of emails that matched the q attribute search string in the email query, or the number of unread emails if no query was specified. If total-estimate is 1, this will be just an estimate of the number of emails retrieved.
    total-estimate A number indicating whether total-matched is just an estimate: 1 indicates it is; 0 or omitted indicates that it is not.
    url The URL of the Gmail inbox.
    <mail-thread-info> Element that wraps an email thread.
    tid The thread id of this thread.
    participation A number indicating the user’s participation level in this thread: 0 indicates that the user has not participated; 1 indicates that the user is one of many recipients listed in the thread; 2 indicates that the user is the sole recipient for messages in this thread.
    messages The number of messages in the thread.
    date A timestamp of the most recent message, in milliseconds since the UNIX epoch.
    url The URL linking to this thread
    <senders> Contains one or more <sender> elements, each of which describes an email.
    <sender> Describes a single email.
    address The email address of the sender.
    name The display name of the sender.
    originator A number indicating whether this sender originated this thread: 1 means that this person originated this thread; 0 or omitted means that another person originated this thread.
    unread A number indicating whether or not the thread includes an unread message: 1 means yes; 0 or omitted means no.
    <labels> A tag that contains a pipe (‘|’) delimited list of labels applied to this thread.
    <subject> The subject of this email.
    <snippet> A snippet from the body of the email. This must be HTML-encoded.

    Check out Google’s Gmail and Google Talk Notifications page for examples of how to use Google Gmail extensions.