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On 25/11/22 21:01, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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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 |
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>> Python3 - time is hard to find. getmail6 is a fork where somebody has |
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>> fed it through 2to3 and not bugfixed it (properly). In other words, |
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>> whether 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 |
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> works exactly like getmail, but uses python3. I guess what I need is |
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> an MTA that takes input on stdin, and outputs to a host:port |
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The solution was to use sendEmail (its in portage) as below: |
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[destination] |
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type = MDA_external |
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path = /usr/bin/sendEmail |
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arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)", "-t", "my_valid_user@××××.server", "-s", |
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"localhost:10026", "-o", "tls=no", "-o", "message-format=raw") |
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unixfrom = true |
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user = my_valid_user |
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group = my_valid_group |
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