Re: Problem with continuing to run Getmail

Chris Dunn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 20/09/2020 09:44, mick.crane wrote:

> On 2020-09-20 13:26, Chris Dunn wrote:
> <snipped>
>>
>> Now when I run /usr/local/bin/getmail (with my existing
>> ~/.getmail/getmailrc in place) I'm seeing :
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/local/bin/getmail", line 59, in <module>
>>     from getmailcore import __version__, retrievers, destinations, 
>> filters, \
>>   File
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/getmailcore/retrievers.py",
>> line 45, in <module>
>>     from getmailcore._retrieverbases import *
>>   File
>> "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py",
>> line 317, in <module>
>>     class POP3_SSL_EXTENDED(poplib.POP3_SSL):
>> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'POP3_SSL'
>>
>> No mail is fetched. The original /usr/bin/getmail still functions well.
>>
>> Can anybody please advise what is wrong here, correct me on any
>> mis-steps that I may have made, and advise how I can work around the
>> problem.
>>
>> All responses will be gratefully received.
> 
> What happens if you connect with SimpleImapRetriever ?
> 
> mick

mick,

Thanks for this quick reply.

Inserting type = SimpleImapRetriever in my getmailrc didn't change the 
error messages received on running getmail.

Thanks anyway,

-- 

Chris Dunn
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