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		ejain on June 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gmail API Granularity is the key here. I run a small self-tracking service (zenobase.com), and would love to let my users pull in some "metadata" from their email (e.g. the number of messages in the inbox, or the number of messages sent by hour). But I don't want my users to trust me with unrestricted access to their email.

alooPotato on June 25, 2014 [–]

A meta data only permission would be cool. Access to from, to, cc, date, labels, etc for all mails but no access to the actual content would be good.

mrkurt on June 26, 2014 | [–]

You could label it "NSA access".

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