Command Line Warriors - Processing your offline gmail in Python

In a discussion in my local Linux group, I was encouraged to try out a new feature of Google's webmail ('Gmail') that allows you to read your email offline. Inside Gmail, you can click on Settings then Labs then Enable Offline. This will then prompt you to install a Firefox extension called Google Gears. The one provided this way is only for 32 bit platforms, for 64 bit Linux, I found a third-part