BSD Ports

mail/getmail6 6.19.08 DragonFly

POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever (Python3 fork)

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2
Categories
mail, python
Package size
221.8 KiB, 1411.1 KiB installed

Description

POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with Maildir and command delivery (python3 fork).

Summary of features:

  • Retrieve mail from an unlimited number of POP3/IMAP4 mailboxes and servers.
  • Support for POP3-over-SSL and IMAP-over-SSL, as well as SDPS WARNING: even with SSL, "no certificate or key validation is done." so that getmail does not detect or protect from man-in-the-middle attacks.
  • Support for multidrop or domain mailboxes.
  • Safe and reliable delivery to qmail-style Maildirs, as well as program (pipe) delivery for use with arbitrary external MDAs. Includes an MDA for mbox files that supports mboxrd format and fcntl-type flock locking.
  • Does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers.
  • Does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host.
  • Can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set to only download new messages.
  • Written in Python, and therefore easy to extend or customize.
  • Simple to install, configure, and use.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlymail/getmail66.19.08
FreeBSDmail/getmail66.20.01
NetBSDmail/getmail66.19.10
HardenedBSDmail/getmail66.20.01
GhostBSDmail/getmail66.20.01

Install

Binary package:

pkg install py311-getmail6

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/mail/getmail6 && make install clean

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

This fork of getmail 5.14 was modified to work with python3. It is work in
progress, and bugs should be reported at:
https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/issues