* Mon 2007-12-03 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Nov 30 19:03, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> >> Included in Debian stable >> >> http://packages.debian.org/getmail4 >> >> Jari >> >> sdesc: "mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS" >> ldesc: "A simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all >> messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3/IMAP4/SDPS >> servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into a >> qmail-style Maildir, mbox file or to a command (pipe delivery) like >> maildrop or procmail, specified on a per-account basis. getmail also >> has support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes." >> category: Mail Python >> requires: cygwin python >> >> a) manual >> >> wget \ >> http://cygwin.cante.net/getmail/getmail-4.7.7-1-src.tar.bz2 \ >> http://cygwin.cante.net/getmail/getmail-4.7.7-1.tar.bz2 \ >> http://cygwin.cante.net/getmail/setup.hint > > Why is it called getmail4 in debian? Is that something we should > do as well?
There was version leap from 3.x to 4.x, so they packaged latest getmail4 separately. I don't think we need 3.x. > I'm also wondering if this tool isn't supposed to handle POP3 and > IMAP over SSL. Does it? If so, is it missing a dependency to > openssl or is that handled by the dependency to python? I assume Python includes that. From the getmail.README Supported protocols: POP3, POP3-over-SSL, IMAP4, IMAP4-over-SSL, and SDPS mail. This text is now in setup.hint too. Jari -- Welcome to FOSS revolution: we fix and modify until it shines