View Unread mail in Gmail using Terminal in Ubuntu

By using Atom feeds you can able to view your unread mails in gmail using terminal in ubuntu.

Open Terminal

Install Curl
sudo apt-get install curl

then use the following command line

curl -u username –silent “https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom” | perl -ne ‘print “\t” if //; print “$2\n” if /(.*)/;’

replace user name with your gmail account

Now it will ask you for password

enter the password you will be able to see your unread mails