From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3814158020 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:38:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08213E09D5; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4AFAE0900 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-138-24-20.range86-138.btcentralplus.com ([86.138.24.20] helo=[192.168.1.218]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1oyXxq-0005nK-9v for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:37:58 +0000 Message-ID: <9dcf8745-80dc-2074-8672-dc662371f0e5@youngman.org.uk> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 12:37:52 +0000 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any one with experience using getmail with postfix? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <72b06430-08c0-0edc-532a-52eb7a5fbfd9@iinet.net.au> Content-Language: en-GB From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: <72b06430-08c0-0edc-532a-52eb7a5fbfd9@iinet.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: ce32676c-ad18-4f3c-bc85-5a788a9cf75d X-Archives-Hash: 19da3f2c5845d288836e8fd0a3e5dcfa 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