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
