Package: getmail
Version: 5.5-2
Severity: wishlist
Charles Cazabon (getmail upstream) says [0]:
> If your OS ships and uses, say, systemd, then perhaps you should
> ask your OS vendor to provide a way to run getmail in their getmail
> package, if you feel it's that important and don't feel up to
> configuring it yourself.
consider this a feature request, then, since debian is the one doing
system integration.
I'm imagining a getmail user service template, shipped somewhere like
/usr/lib/systemd/user/getmail@.socket
so the user could do something like:
systemctl --user enable getmail@example.service
and that would start a backgrounded idling IMAP connection that reads
its config from ~/.getmail/config/example
I'm not sure exactly how we'd choose which folder to idle on -- maybe
the template should be instantiated as getmail@example-INBOX.service
instead?
anyway, just wanted to record this wishlist request. thanks for
maintaining getmail in debian!
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[0] id:20180125194345.7ihk7gzshzm7e...@pyropus.ca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'),
(200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages getmail depends on:
ii python 2.7.14-4
getmail recommends no packages.
getmail suggests no packages.
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