Re: messages remain in the tmp directory

Le Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:36:05PM -0600, Charles Cazabon a écrit :
> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 19:36:05 -0600
> From: Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: messages remain in the tmp directory
> 
> Gerard ROBIN <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello I install getmail in my hiphone, (xiaomi redmi 5 plus) but the messages
> > remain in tmp directory, they do not go in the "new" directory.
> [...]
> > 2021-09-21 15:59:36 Delivery error (maildir delivery 11839 error
> > (127, maildir delivery process failed (module 'os' has no attribute +'link')))
> 
> Your operating system (Android?) & Python do not expose the Python function
> os.link() which calls link(2) as one step in performing maildir delivery.
> Either Python was built incorrectly - I've never seen os.link() missing, so I
> don't know what's going on here - or your version of Android is missing
> link(2) completely, which pretty much means it's not Unix-compatible.
> 
> Without link(2), getmail cannot deliver mail to a Maildir using the
> prescribed, safe steps to do so.  And I'm not going to change getmail to
> deliver unsafely to maildirs because that could result in corrupted or lost
> mail.
> 
> You'll have to use mbox format, I guess.
> 
> Charles
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> Charles Cazabon
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Hello,
works fine with mbox format.
Thanks a lot for your help

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Gerard
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