Hi. On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:31:19PM +0000, mick crane wrote: > > this was just a quick heads-up for those who are stuck > > on getmail like i am (and quite happy with it). :) > > > > as far as getmail goes maintainer thinks is an unnecessary panic. > > ""getmail goes out of official support by my distro" may be a theoretical > problem, or a philosophical one, but it it certainly is not a significant > practical problem.
Indeed. Switch back to fetchmail, because the less you're depending on python and the software that uses it - the better ;) > Keep a Python 2 binary around, download getmail, untar it, > and run it right out of the directory - that's literally all that's required." > > what exactly the python 2 binary is I haven't had need to look as yet. /usr/bin/python, currently provided by "python-minimal" package. Reco
