Package: getmail6
Version: 6.19.12-1
Severity: normal
As of a few days ago, maybe with the change to from python 3.14.6 to
3.14.7, getmail6 started throwing the following error after fetching the
emails via imapssl:
getmail version 6.19.12
Python version 3.14.7 (main, Aug 11 2026, 08:48:35) [GCC 16.2.0]
Unhandled exception follows:
File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 1091, in main
success = go(configs, options.idle, options.only_account)
File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 197, in go
retriever.select_mailbox(mailbox)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py", line
1621, in select_mailbox
codecs.encode(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
self.conn._quote(mailbox),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
'imap4-utf-7'),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/getmailcore/imap_utf7.py", line 96, in
encoder
r.extend(b'&' + modified_base64(''.join(_in)) + b'-')
~~~~~~~^^^^^
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, int found
encoding with 'imap4-utf-7' codec failed
Here are the configuration options (from --dump):
getmail version 6.19.12
Copyright (C) 1998-2026 Charles Cazabon and others. Licensed under GPL-2.0.
getmail configuration:
getmail version 6.19.12
Python version 3.14.7 (main, Aug 11 2026, 08:48:35) [GCC 16.2.0]
retriever: SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever(ca_certs="None",
certfile="CERTFILE.crt.pem", getmaildir="DIR/.getmail",
imap_id_extension="False", imap_on_delete="None", imap_search="None",
keyfile="KEYFILE.key.pem", mailboxes="('Inbox', 'Sent Items', 'Junk Email')",
move_on_delete="fetched_by_laptop", password="*",
password_command="('getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens', 'DIR/provider.json')",
port="993", record_mailbox="True", server="outlook.office365.com",
ssl_cert_hostname="None", ssl_ciphers="None", ssl_fingerprints="()",
ssl_version="None", timeout="180", uid_cache="None", use_cram_md5="False",
use_kerberos="False", use_peek="True", use_xoauth2="True",
username="EMAIL@DOMAIN")
destination: MDA_external(allow_root_commands="False", arguments="()",
command="procmail", group="None", ignore_stderr="False",
path="/usr/bin/procmail", pipe_stdout="True", unixfrom="True", user="None")
options:
delete : True
delete_after : 0
delete_bigger_than : 0
delivered_to : False
fingerprint : False
logfile : logfile(filename="~/.getmail/log")
mark_read : False
max_bytes_per_session : 0
max_message_size : 0
max_messages_per_session : 0
message_log : ~/.getmail/log
message_log_syslog : False
message_log_verbose : False
netrc_file : None
only_oldmail_file : False
read_all : True
received : True
skip_imap_fetch_size : False
to_oldmail_on_each_mail : False
use_netrc : False
verbose : 2
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 7.1.4+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages getmail6 depends on:
ii python3 3.14.6-1
getmail6 recommends no packages.
getmail6 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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