From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix?
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:37:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dcf8745-80dc-2074-8672-dc662371f0e5@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72b06430-08c0-0edc-532a-52eb7a5fbfd9@iinet.net.au>
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
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2022-11-25 11:56 [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix? William Kenworthy
2022-11-25 12:37 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2022-11-25 13:01 ` William Kenworthy
2022-11-25 15:01 ` Solved: GRe: " William Kenworthy
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