--- libgmail.py.orig	2004-11-10 23:53:01 +0200
+++ libgmail.py	2004-11-10 23:55:19 +0200
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@
         # Extract number of messages in thread/conversation.
 
         self._authors = threadInfo[T_AUTHORS_HTML]
+        self.info = threadInfo
 
         try:
             # TODO: Find out if this information can be found another way...
@@ -846,6 +847,25 @@
             
         return iter(self._messages)
 
+    def __getattr__(self, name):
+        """
+        Dynamically dispatch some interesting thread properties.
+        """
+        attrs = { 'unread': T_UNREAD,
+                  'star': T_STAR,
+                  'date': T_DATE_HTML,
+                  'authors': T_AUTHORS_HTML,
+                  'flags': T_FLAGS,
+                  'subject': T_SUBJECT_HTML,
+                  'snippet': T_SNIPPET_HTML,
+                  'categories': T_CATEGORIES,
+                  'attach': T_ATTACH_HTML,
+                  'matching_msgid': T_MATCHING_MSGID,
+                  'extra_snippet': T_EXTRA_SNIPPET }
+        if name in attrs:
+            return self.info[ attrs[name] ];
+
+        raise AttributeError("no attribute %s" % name)
 
     def _getMessages(self, thread):
         """