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

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

On 25/11/22 21:01, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
> 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


The solution was to use sendEmail (its in portage) as below:

[destination]
type = MDA_external
path = /usr/bin/sendEmail
arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)", "-t", "my_valid_user@mail.server", "-s", 
"localhost:10026", "-o", "tls=no", "-o", "message-format=raw")
unixfrom = true
user = my_valid_user
group = my_valid_group