Package: getmail4 Version: 4.3.10-1 Severity: normal The included retrievers don't help you much if you want or need to use SSL and your POP server has "broken" UIDLs. The attached patch adds a retriever that Works For Me.
Daniel -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages getmail4 depends on: ii debconf 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii python 2.3.5-3 An interactive high-level object-o getmail4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- /tmp/getmail4-4.3.10/getmailcore/retrievers.py 2005-04-08
06:33:17.000000000 -0700
+++ /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/getmailcore/retrievers.py 2005-10-06
12:48:55.000000000 -0700
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2.3
'''Classes implementing retrievers (message sources getmail can retrieve mail
from).
@@ -138,6 +137,68 @@
+ os.linesep)
#######################################
+class BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever(POP3RetrieverBase, POP3SSLinitMixIn):
+ '''Retriever class for single-user POP3 mailboxes on servers that do not
+ properly assign unique IDs to messages. Since with these broken servers
+ we cannot rely on UIDL, we have to use message numbers, which are unique
+ within a POP3 session, but which change across sessions. This class
+ therefore can not be used to leave old mail on the server and download
+ only new mail.
+ '''
+ _confitems = (
+ {'name' : 'configparser', 'type' : types.InstanceType, 'default' :
None},
+ {'name' : 'getmaildir', 'type' : str, 'default' : '~/.getmail/'},
+
+ {'name' : 'timeout', 'type' : int, 'default' : 180},
+ {'name' : 'server', 'type' : str},
+ {'name' : 'port', 'type' : int, 'default' : POP3_ssl_port},
+ {'name' : 'username', 'type' : str},
+ {'name' : 'password', 'type' : str, 'default' : None},
+ {'name' : 'use_apop', 'type' : bool, 'default' : False},
+ {'name' : 'keyfile', 'type' : str, 'default' : None},
+ {'name' : 'certfile', 'type' : str, 'default' : None},
+ )
+ received_from = None
+ received_with = 'POP3-SSL'
+ received_by = localhostname()
+
+ def _read_oldmailfile(self):
+ '''Force list of old messages to be empty by making this a no-op, so
+ duplicated IDs are always treated as new messages.'''
+ self.log.trace()
+
+ def write_oldmailfile(self, **kwargs):
+ '''Short-circuit writing the oldmail file.'''
+ self.log.trace()
+
+ def _getmsglist(self):
+ '''Don't rely on UIDL; instead, use just the message number.'''
+ self.log.trace()
+ try:
+ response, msglist, octets = self.conn.list()
+ for line in msglist:
+ msgnum = int(line.split()[0])
+ msgsize = int(line.split()[1])
+ self.msgids.append(msgnum)
+ self.msgsizes[msgnum] = msgsize
+ except poplib.error_proto, o:
+ raise getmailOperationError('POP error (%s)' % o)
+ self.gotmsglist = True
+
+ def __str__(self):
+ self.log.trace()
+ return 'BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:%s' % (
+ self.conf.get('username', 'username'),
+ self.conf.get('server', 'server'),
+ self.conf.get('port', 'port')
+ )
+
+ def showconf(self):
+ self.log.trace()
+ self.log.info('BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever(%s)' % self._confstring()
+ + os.linesep)
+
+#######################################
class SimplePOP3SSLRetriever(POP3RetrieverBase, POP3SSLinitMixIn):
'''Retriever class for single-user POP3-over-SSL mailboxes.
'''
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