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Is there any way to store and retrieve data in my Google inbox without having to send emails the whole time and clog up my inbox...? (A simple text file is all I would like to have there)

Or is there some other way of storing files in the google cloud (for free)?

Not that this makes much difference but i'm using Java.

Thanks to whoever has a solution.

Iyre answered 18/3, 2011 at 16:48 Comment(3)

IIRC, this is against their policy... – Colonize 18/3, 2011 at 16:50

does it have to be google mail? couldn't it be google docs? – Leboff 18/3, 2011 at 16:52

Could you use SkyDrive, Amazon S3 or DropBox instead? These offer cloud storage in free, partly free or paid service forms. – Howbeit 18/3, 2011 at 16:55

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I'd listen to Mike and check the ToS. However, there's nothing stopping you from keeping a draft email floating around that contains textual data. I use it to pass notes to myself instead of sending emails.

Elephantiasis answered 18/3, 2011 at 16:52 Comment(3)

Yeah I think I will do that... I do that anyway to keep track of songs I like... that kind of stuff. This isn't going to be much data; it's just data that a program of mine will be using. I will try and get that to work like that. Thanks. – Iyre 18/3, 2011 at 17:1

@ExtremeCoder @qor72: They also have several other services (Google Documents, Google Tasks) which are actually meant for this sort of thing... – Gumption 18/3, 2011 at 17:26

@BlueRaja Agreed. I am not recommending it as a production solution, but it did match what @ExtremeCoder was asking about. – Elephantiasis 21/3, 2011 at 12:35

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For programing-related stuff, you could try Google Project Hosting.

Prolactin answered 18/3, 2011 at 16:50 Comment(0)

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Highly likely this is against gmail terms of service. You're likely to get your account deleted if you attempt this.

There were some free/open products years ago that did this ("GDrive" I think was one) and they all were eventually shut down.

Autoradiograph answered 18/3, 2011 at 16:50 Comment(0)

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Like others said, it might be against google's terms of service. For a good overview of permited interactions with googles services:

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html http://code.google.com/more/

A quick search didn't show a way to get to mail attachments.

Google mail supports imap, so you might be able to do it using a java imap client library.

I would use google docs for this though.

Leboff answered 18/3, 2011 at 17:4 Comment(0)

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I'd listen to Mike and check the ToS. However, there's nothing stopping you from keeping a draft email floating around that contains textual data. I use it to pass notes to myself instead of sending emails.

Elephantiasis answered 18/3, 2011 at 16:52 Comment(3)

Yeah I think I will do that... I do that anyway to keep track of songs I like... that kind of stuff. This isn't going to be much data; it's just data that a program of mine will be using. I will try and get that to work like that. Thanks. – Iyre 18/3, 2011 at 17:1

@ExtremeCoder @qor72: They also have several other services (Google Documents, Google Tasks) which are actually meant for this sort of thing... – Gumption 18/3, 2011 at 17:26

@BlueRaja Agreed. I am not recommending it as a production solution, but it did match what @ExtremeCoder was asking about. – Elephantiasis 21/3, 2011 at 12:35

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