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On 25/11/22 20:37, Wols Lists wrote: |
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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 |
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> you 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 |
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I dont think it makes a difference - for my purposes it looks and works |
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exactly like getmail, but uses python3. I guess what I need is an MTA |
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that takes input on stdin, and outputs to a host:port |
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