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On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail |
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> gateway system |
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Are you using getmail, or getmail6? |
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https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/documentation.html#python3 |
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A quick "emerge --search getmail" shows that gentoo is distributing |
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getmail6 under getmail's name - they are two completely different |
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programs. I guess somebody should file a bug to get THAT fixed. |
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The tldr is that the maintainer of getmail has not migrated to Python3 - |
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time is hard to find. getmail6 is a fork where somebody has fed it |
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through 2to3 and not bugfixed it (properly). In other words, whether you |
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choose getmail or getmail6, you have a problem. |
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Made worse by the fact that many people - distros included! - don't |
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realise that getmail and getmail6 are completely different entities. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |