Re: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On 25/11/22 20:37, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 25/11/2022 11:56, William Kenworthy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>      I am looking into replacing fetchmail with getmail on my mail 
>> gateway system 
>
> Are you using getmail, or getmail6?
>
> https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/documentation.html#python3
>
> A quick "emerge --search getmail" shows that gentoo is distributing 
> getmail6 under getmail's name - they are two completely different 
> programs. I guess somebody should file a bug to get THAT fixed.
>
> The tldr is that the maintainer of getmail has not migrated to Python3 
> - time is hard to find. getmail6 is a fork where somebody has fed it 
> through 2to3 and not bugfixed it (properly). In other words, whether 
> you choose getmail or getmail6, you have a problem.
>
> Made worse by the fact that many people - distros included! - don't 
> realise that getmail and getmail6 are completely different entities.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
I dont think it makes a difference - for my purposes it looks and works 
exactly like getmail, but uses python3.  I guess what I need is an MTA 
that takes input on stdin, and outputs to a host:port