Bug#969021: RFP: getmail6 -- Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

X-Debbugs-Cc: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>


On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 04:51:33PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: 968194@bugs.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : getmail6
>   Version         : 6.4
>   Upstream Author : roland.puntaier@gmail.com
> * URL             : https://github.com/getmail6
> * License         : GNU GPL version 2
>   Programming Lang: Python
>   Description     : Mail retriever with support for POP3, IMAP4 and SDPS
> 
>  getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3/IMAP4/SDPS servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably
>  delivers into a qmail-style Maildir, mbox file or to a command (pipe delivery) like maildrop or procmail, specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes.
> 
> The current getmail package only works with python2.
> 
> But debian has moved to python3.
> 
> Therefore getmail6, which is designed to work with python3, should be
> added to Debian.
> 
> No need to update the current debian getmail package.
> Just somebody should maintain a new independent getmail6 pacakge.

This getmail6 will install files like:
/usr/bin/getmail
/usr/bin/getmail_fetch
/usr/bin/getmail_mbox
/usr/bin/getmail_maildir
/usr/bin/getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/getmailcore

which are also installed by getmail.

So, I guess the best possible way might be if getmail maintainer updates
to this source, else I can package getmail6 with a "Breaks: getmail".


--
Regards
Sudip