well, yesterday finally became the day when i tried to see if i could get the old getmail to be left alone, but nope, none of the options worked.
the good news, is that getmail6 is in unstable and was a drop in replacement for getmail. there's a bit of an odd message coming out of it but that's not an error and everything is ending up where it should. during all of this fiddling i was wondering if the python2 to python3 transition was complete enough that i could run all my programs that i use and it all works just fine. so i installed python-is-python3 and the system rebooted and none of things i use the most have failed. that's all i need from a system (browswer, e-mail, usenet, gimp, go, libreoffice). i've never done much with python2 and the game i wrote was python3 so that's all to the good. this was just a quick heads-up for those who are stuck on getmail like i am (and quite happy with it). :) songbird
