Control: retitle 782614 Python 2.7.9 poplib._MAXLINE problem Control: notfound 782614 4.46.0-1~deb7u1
Hi, This is Python 2.7.9 problem. Upstream of getmail took strong position on this. He made extremely simple fix as attached patch with 4.48.0 release. 4.46.0-1~deb7u1 is in the oldstable with Python 2.7.3* and not hit by this bug. Osamu
--- getmail-4.47.0/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py 2015-02-26 10:10:44.000000000 +0900 +++ getmail-4.48.0/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py 2015-06-01 23:49:04.499564781 +0900 @@ -233,6 +233,15 @@ # Constant for POPSSL POP3_SSL_PORT = 995 + +# Python added poplib._MAXLINE somewhere along the way. As far as I can +# see, it serves no purpose except to introduce bugs into any software +# using poplib. Any computer running Python will have at least some megabytes +# of userspace memory; arbitrarily causing message retrieval to break if any +# "line" exceeds 2048 bytes is absolutely stupid. +poplib._MAXLINE = 1 << 20 # 1MB; decrease this if you're running on a VIC-20 + + # # Mix-in classes #
