Re: getmail with python 3 adpatations

On 14/05/2020 13:15, Charles Cazabon wrote:
[SNIP]
> 
> I've wanted to do a proper rewrite/refactoring of getmail for years, and
> started a bit of it.  That work would involve making getmail v.future Python 3
> only (probably 3.6 minimum) and some other changes to modernize it - dropping
> support for POP, probably, and dropping support for unencrypted IMAP
> (IMAP-over-TLS or STARTTLS only).  I have a very rough working version of
> that, but it's nowhere near releasable.
> 
While I understand your reasons, could you please keep POP3 and the old 
IMAP functionality in Getmail, if you do re-write it?

Accessing POP3 mail on systems which won't/can't use IMAP[1] is the main 
reason I use Getmail, so loss of this functionality would make a new 
Getmail no use to me, and perhaps a few others.

Of course, I would just keep using the old Getmail and Python 2, there's 
not likely to be any sudden massive problems with either, but if it is 
updated, it would be good to be able to use it.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

1 - Cheap RSPs[2] here in Oz don't have the technical capability to 
fiddle with their email.  Keeping what was set-up by techs years ago 
running is about all they can do.

2 - RSP: Residential Service Provider.  In Australia, we moved to a 
national infrastructure called the "NBN," as a part of which ISPs got 
re-named RSPs, for no real reason apart from bureaucrats do this stuff.