Status of getmail vs getmail6 discussion

Hi Charles, hi all,


I'm using getmail for many years now. The original getmail, from Charles, I've followed the copyright discussions with getmail's "getmail6" fork owner and decided to stay with getmail.

Getmail gets all emails from my external accounts (like the one I'm sending this mailing list email from) and stores them in my self-hosted dovecot/IMAP installation on a VPS. All getmail as systemd units. Real time, if supported by email provider, systemd timer based scheduled, if not. Rock solid, simply loving it!

I've just upgraded this VPS from OpenSUSE leap 15.4 to 15.5. And recognized now, that the distribution's pkg manager zypper now treats getmail6 as successor for getmail. Means, that zypper now always offers to remove pkgs for getmail, and newly install getmail6 pkgs instead.

For myself of course I can tell zypper to ignore this unwanted pkg relationship. But as this distribution default IMHO seems to be not correct, I want to ask about the current, maybe final status of the getmail / getmail6 discussion. Last post I found is pretty long ago.


Thanks and regards,
Michael