ok: the temporary goal now is to figure out what kind of statistical distribution the jitter in the removal requests has. it's 1634 UTC-5. 1634 and i'm installing the google library 1635 and i've pasted their example into a file 1635. i need a file called 'credentials.json' to log in. better learn what format it has. 1636 i skimmed the text and it looks like it's supposed to prompt me if token.json doesn't exist. 1636 i tried setting DISPLAY but still no prompt 1637 i found this problem is discussed at https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python#file_not_found_err... 1638 it looks like this library is for google cloud platform. i guess i'd rather use a normal imap library then. 1639 this sounds pretty familiar. https://docs.python.org/3/library/imaplib.html