Package: getmail6
Version: 6.19.01-1
Severity: grave
getmail6 now crashes at startup with the error shown below in the
transcript. It works fine with Python 3.11:
$ python3.11 /usr/bin/getmail --rcfile=rc-inbox
getmail version 6.19.01
Copyright (C) 1998-2024 Charles Cazabon and others. Licensed under GNU GPL
version 2.
SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:san...@mit.edu@outlook.office365.com:993:
0 messages (0 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped
My system (mostly running 'unstable') just changed to Python 3.12 a day
or so ago, and getmail6 has failed since then (but not before). Thus, I
suspect something is now incompatible between the getmail code and
Python 3.12's expectations.
Here is promised failure transcript with Python 3.12:
$ /usr/bin/getmail --rcfile=rc-inbox
getmail version 6.19.01
Copyright (C) 1998-2024 Charles Cazabon and others. Licensed under GNU GPL
version 2.
SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:san...@mit.edu@outlook.office365.com:993:
Exception: please read docs/BUGS and include the following information in any
bug report:
getmail version 6.19.01
Python version 3.12.4 (main, Jun 12 2024, 19:06:53) [GCC 13.2.0]
Unhandled exception follows:
File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 1077, in main
success = go(configs, options.idle, options.only_account)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/bin/getmail", line 188, in go
retriever.initialize(options)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
line 1807, in initialize
self._connect()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
line 714, in _connect
self.conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: IMAP4_SSL.__init__() takes from 1 to 3 positional arguments but
5 were given
Please also include configuration information from running getmail
with your normal options plus "--dump".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.7.9-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 3.12.2-1
getmail6 recommends no packages.
getmail6 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
