Re: getmail slow with gmail POP3

slint at least supplies the getmail provided by this list.



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On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Francesco Ariis wrote:

> Il 01 novembre 2022 alle 11:40 dmacdoug ha scritto:
> > 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.
>
> There is unfortunately no way to install getmail5 ? no, I should call it
> `getmail` full stop, the fork should change name  ? from `main`
> repositories in Debian Bullseye.
>
> Of course you can install it locally, but then what?s the point of
> a software distribution?
>
>
> I had a similar problem with `neomutt` being shipped as `mutt` by Debian:
> - I filed for a name change and failed
>     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866680
> - upstread had to intervene himself for debian maintainers to become
>   responsive
>     https://mutt-users.mutt.narkive.com/ZIhyEl1W/mutt-neomutt-and-debian-stretch#post7
>
> So my suggestion for Charles & friends is to persevere and if needed
> escalate to Debian people and even Github.
>
> </ot>
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