Gmailfs

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GmailFS is a virtual file system originally developed by Richard Jones that uses a Gmail e-mail account for storage.

GmailFS is written for Linux, but Windows and Mac OS X ports exist too.

It originally was based on underlying SMTP and POP3 interation with gmail.

Since 2010 a fork exists that uses IMAP. It works by building a filesystem with the Filesystem in Userspace loadable kernel module, and manages communication with Gmail through a special purpose Python library called libgmail.

The actual GmailFS is also implemented in Python.