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ttoirrah

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Registered: 2015-01-29

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getmail Package gone

What's happened to the getmail Package?
It's gone!
It's referred to by these Arch Wiki pages:
  getmail
  Backup Gmail with getmail
And it's a requirement for msmtp-oauth2.
Any ideas?

Last edited by ttoirrah (2020-04-27 10:38:35)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: getmail Package gone

It was just removed, probably because it uses python2 .

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 67687ed144

If you want to revive or update it, you can find the latest PKGBUILD at [1]

Looking at msmtp-oauth2 download page[2] the aur package is about 7 versions behind upstream.
I"d focus on upgrading msmtp to see if it still needs getmail or upstream has switched to something else.

[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 8faf66ce54

[2] https://marlam.de/msmtp/download/

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ttoirrah

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Re: getmail Package gone

The upstream maintainer has posted a package in the AUR, getmail.

kolcon

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Re: getmail Package gone

Will it survive when it's written in Python2 or will some bot delete it again?

WorMzy

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Re: getmail Package gone

Have you seen some of the crap in the AUR? Python2 might be dead, but its corpse is still warm compared to some of the junk people have "helpfully" shared on the AUR.

Who knows, if getmail gets rewritten in a modern language, there's a good chance it'll end up back in the official repos.

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eschwartz

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Re: getmail Package gone

Will it survive when it's written in Python2 or will some bot delete it again?

There are no bots deleting things.

And python2 won't disappear, though at some point it will be dropped to the AUR as well.

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