Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-23 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:01:02PM +0200, Matthias Hanft wrote > Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are > > there any better, simpler solutions? > > I don't know "getmail", but "fetchmail" runs here since 10 years > without any

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread Stroller
> On 22 Jul 2020, at 12:01, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > I don't know "getmail", but "fetchmail" runs here since 10 years > without any problems. Just put a line like +1

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 01:02:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are >> there any better, simpler solutions? > >I switched to getmail years ago because of frustrations with fetchmail. >At the moment I have getmail in my overlay and

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread Matthias Hanft
Walter Dnes wrote: > > Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are > there any better, simpler solutions? I don't know "getmail", but "fetchmail" runs here since 10 years without any problems. Just put a line like poll securepop.t-online.de proto pop3 user

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 01:02:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are > there any better, simpler solutions? I switched to getmail years ago because of frustrations with fetchmail. At the moment I have getmail in my overlay and unmasked

[gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-21 Thread Walter Dnes
I've been using "getmail" for years to pull down email from multiple popmail accounts and pass the emails to procmail for processing. It's being masked because of hard-coded python 2.7 dependancy. "fetchmail" looks promising. The stable version net-mail/fetchmail-6.4.1 also requires python