Re: getmail slow with gmail POP3

if getmail6 runs into security problems getmail misses out on, there's an
additional bit of writing needed on that original bug tracker entry.



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On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, dmacdoug wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 07:18:05PM +0100, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > Is there a way to make Debian stop using getmail6 ? This is very annoying.
> >
> > Peter
>
> It would be nice, but, as Francisco said,  "silly debian maintainers and
> their policies".  I think it is one of their silly policies to default to
> packages that depend on python3 and deprecate anything that still depends
> on python2 even though python2 is still installed and available.  So if
> you know to do it you can easily uncheck getmail6 and install real getmail
> instead, but most people aren't that tuned in to such things.  I don't know
> what to do about it.
>
> Don
>
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