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getmail 4.8.4 mail =26

POP3/IMAP4 mail retriever with Maildir and command delivery
Maintained by: question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org
Port Added: 05 May 2001 21:38:07
Also Listed In: python

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A POP3 and IMAP4 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.

Summary of features:
- Retrieve mail from an unlimited number of POP3/IMAP4 mailboxes and servers. 
- Support for POP3-over-SSL and IMAP-over-SSL, as well as SDPS
- Support for multidrop or domain mailboxes. 
- Safe and reliable delivery to qmail-style Maildirs, as well as program
  (pipe) delivery for use with arbitrary external MDAs. Includes an MDA
  for mbox files that supports mboxrd format and fcntl-type flock locking. 
- Does not destroy information by rewriting mail headers. 
- Does not cause mail loops by doing SMTP injection, and therefore does
  not require that you run an MTA (like qmail or sendmail) on your host. 
- Can remember which mail it has already retrieved, and can be set to
  only download new messages. 
- Written in Python, and therefore easy to extend or customize. 
- Simple to install, configure, and use. 

Author:	Charles Cazabon <getmail@discworld.dyndns.org>
WWW:	http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

CVSWeb : Sources : Main Web Site : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

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Required To Build: lang/python25
Required To Run: lang/python25

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/mail/getmail/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r getmail

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Configuration Options

     No options to configure

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Master Sites:

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/

http://mirrors.closedsrc.org/getmail/

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

• 2004-12-08

  Affects: users of mail/getmail

  Author: question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org

  Reason: 
    There is a known quirk when using mail/getmail with Python 2.4
    where the DeprecationWarning is printed regarding the use of
    the 'strict' keyword when a message is being retrieved.
  
    You can redirect stdout/stderr to /dev/null to quelch the warning.
  
    The quirk may be fixed in a future version of getmail.
  
  



• 2004-10-13

  Affects: users of mail/getmail

  Author: question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org

  Reason: 
    If you are using a version of mail/getmail earlier than 4.x and
    are planning to upgrade to 4.2.2, please note that the configuration file
    syntax has changed and the existing configuration file(s) will not work.
    Please refer to the online documentation available at:
  
      (http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/documentation.html)
  
    If you already upgraded to the latest version of getmail, you can refer
    to the installed documentation under:
  
      ${PREFIX}/share/docs/getmail
  
    The 4.x branch of getmail also requires Python 2.3.3 or newer.
  
    Some mail delivery agents require that the unixfrom parameter to be set to
    either "true" or "false" in the configuration file.
  
    A "quick and dirty" guide on setting up, configuring and using getmail is
    available at:
  
      (http://www.qnd-guides.org/qnd-getmail.html)
  
  

- Update to 4.8.4

PR:             ports/127689
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports at closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.8.3

PR:             126459
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update 4.8.2

Changelog:
        - for IMAP retrievers, keep message state around for
          30 days even if the corresponding message isn't seen.
          This allows users to have multiple rc files with
          different IMAP folders to retrieve from without losing
          their "seen" mail state for the folders they're not
          currently retrieving from. You no longer need to work
          around this with different getmail state directories.

PR:             126201
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Uppdate to 4.8.1

PR:             122117
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.8.0

Changes:
-better diagnostic when user invalidly supplies timeout configuration
 parametmer for an IMAP-SSL retriever.
-code cleanups

PR:             ports/120861
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.7.8

PR:             120302
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.7.7

PR:             117930
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer

- Update to 4.7.6

PR:             ports/115329
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports at closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.7.5

PR:             ports/113626
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports at closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.7.3

PR:             ports/110730
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.7.2

PR:             109645
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.7.0

PR:             ports/108387
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

Update to 4.6.5.

PR:             ports/104690
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.6.4

PR:             ports/103775
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports(at)closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update mail/getmail to 4.6.3 which includes several bugfixes.
- Also manually set chmod on the getmailcore library files to 644 as
  the Python dist installer uses root's umask to install files.
  Executable files were already set with proper chmod during install.

PR:             99492
Submitted by:   maintainer (Linh Pham)

- Update mail/getmail to 4.6.2, which includes the following fix noted in
  CHANGELOG:

  - fix regression introduced in 4.6.0 where atime on mbox files would get
    updated (i.e. not set back), making it difficult for other programs to
    tell if there was new mail or not without actually opening the mbox.
    Thanks: Tim van der Molen.

PR:             ports/98726
Submitted by:   maintainer (Linh Pham)

- update to 4.6.1

PR:             ports/98221
Submitted by:   maintainer (Linh Pham)

- Update to 4.6.0

PR:             95449
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update mail/getmail to 4.5.4, which includes a new configuration parameter
  for Maildir "filemode".

PR:             93411
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update mail/getmail to 4.5.3, which includes a minor updates to the SSL
  retrievers to allow "~/" and "~username/" in paths.

PR:             93108
Submitted by:   maintainer (Linh Pham)

- Update to 4.5.2

PR:             ports/92975
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.5.1

Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)
PR:             ports/92777

Update mail/getmail to 4.4.4, which includes the following change per
CHANGELOG:

Version 4.4.4
3 January 2006

  -improve parsing of flags in IMAP responses.  Thanks: Gareth McCaughan.

PR:             91275
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

Update to 4.4.3

PR:             89818
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

Update to 4.4.2

PR:             88944
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

Update to 4.4.1

PR:             88804
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

Update to 4.4.0
Add SHA256

PR:             88691
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

Update to 4.3.14,  which fixes an error introduced to
BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever feature

PR:             88401
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org>

- Remove "." entry from MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR that was added for testing
  purposes but forgot to remove before sending PR to update port to
  the current version.

PR:             87551
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

Update mail/getmail to 4.3.13, which includes a new retriever type as noted
in the CHANGELOG:

  -add BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever as SSL version of BrokenUIDLPOP3Retriever,
  based on an idea by a user of the Debian package.  Thanks: Daniel Burrows,
  Fredrik Steen.

PR:             ports/87502
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update to 4.3.12

PR:             87451
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)
Approved by:    novel (mentor) (implicit)

Update to 4.3.11.

PR:             82344
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

- Update to 4.3.10

PR:             ports/81269
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

Put the tarball on MASTER_SITE_LOCAL to fix fetching while the master
site is down.

Reported by:    pointyhat via kris

Update to 4.3.9.

PR:             81211
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

- Update mail/getmail to 4.3.8.
  Changes in new version include (from CHANGELOG):
    -change (again) handling of deleted messages vs. connection that dies.
    Inability to send QUIT to POP3 server should be less problematic now.
    -improve housekeeping of old message state file.  Thanks: Thomas Schwinge.

PR:             80699
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

Update to 4.3.7

PR:             ports/80507
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update mail/getmail to 4.3.6

PR:             79685
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update the port to 4.3.5;
- from CHANGELOG:
  make getmail less conservative about remembering messages as already-seen
  when unrelated errors occur after successfully delivering them.

PR:             79512
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

- Update to 4.3.4

PR:             ports/78845
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Add two patches to mail/getmail to tell modules not to use "strict"
  when program is executed with Python 2.4 or newer.
- bump PORTREVISION

PR:             77896
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

- Update pkg-descr with new URL

PR:             ports/77903
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

Update port to 4.3.3 (which includes fixes for avoiding delivery of
duplicate messages and getmailrc files are now referenced by filename
only instead of full paths in output/log files).

Also changed the MASTER_SITES to reflect new URL.

PR:             ports/77885
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

Update mail/getmail to 4.3.2, which includes a fix to eliminate duplicate
Return-Path: header fields; as well as fixes a problem where getmail exits
instead of moving to the next account if an SSL connection abruptly closes
before getmail finishes logging in.

PR:             77240
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports at closedsrc.org>

Update Port: mail/getmail to 4.3.1

        Update mail/getmail to 4.3.1, which fixes a known problem
        with an exception being raised when certain IMAP errors
        occur. New version will just skip the affected account and
        move to the next one.

PR:             ports/76442
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org>

Update Port: mail/getmail to 4.3.0

        Update mail/getmail from 4.2.6 to 4.3.0

PR:             ports/76083
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org>

- Update to 4.2.6

PR:             ports/75771
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update to 4.2.5

PR:             ports/74873
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+fbsdports@closedsrc.org> (maintainer)

- Update to 4.2.4

PR:             ports/74355
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

- Update to 4.2.3

PR:             ports/74256
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)

- Simplify Makefile install target by utilizing USE_PYDISTUTILS
- Update pkg-descr and clarify COMMENT
- Add pkg-message warning the user about the configuration file syntax
  change from 3.x to 4.x

PR:             ports/72720
Submitted by:   Linh Pham (maintainer)
Obtained from:  Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@freeshell.org>

- Update to 4.2.2 [1]
- Update COMMENT to reflect that getmail now does IMAP too
- Pass maintainership to the submitter

PR:             ports/72584
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+freebsdpr@closedsrc.org>

- Update to 4.1.3

PR:             ports/71248
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+freebsdpr@closedsrc.org>

Fix MASTER_SITES

PR:             ports/68926
Submitted by:   TAOKA Fumiyoshi <fmysh@iijmio-mail.jp>

BROKEN: Unfetchable

- Update to 3.2.4

PR:             ports/67849
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question+freebsdpr@closedsrc.org>

- Update to 3.2.2

Prompted by:    Nuno Teixeira <nu@nunotex.freeshell.org>

SIZE *DOES* MATTER.

- Restore a fix for breakage when run under cron(8) introduced in
  Makefile revision 1.21 and mistakenly ommitted during upgrade to 3.2.1

Noticed by:     Ori Peleg <orip@humaneyes.com>

- Update to 3.2.1 [1]
- Shorten COMMENT to fit the limit
- Minor cosmetique fixes

PR:             60277 [1]
Submitted by:   Linh Pham <question@closedsrc.org>

Change to my @FreeBSD.org address.

Approved by:    krion

- Update to 3.2.0
- Fix breakage when run under cron (reported by Alex de
  Kruijff)

PR:             57325
Submitted by:   maintainer

- Update to 3.1.7
- Reword COMMENT and rewrite and update pkg-descr
- Install additional documentation
- Use macros in pkg-plist
- Take maintainership

PR:             53547
Submitted by:   Sergei Kolobov <sergei@kolobov.com>

drop maintainership

PR:             53510
Submitted by:   Anders Andersson <anders@andersa.net>

update to latest version 3.1.0

PR:             48585
Submitted by:   Anders Andersson <anders@andersa.net>

Update to latest version 3.0.4.

PR:             48501
Submitted by:   Anders Andersson <anders@andersa.net>

- use COMMENT
- change MAINTAINER's email address

PR:             48469
Submitted by:   Anders Andersson <anders@hack.org> <anders@andersa.net>

Upgrade to 2.3.11.

PR:             ports/47373
Submitted by:   maintainer

s/maildrop/getmail/

PR:             43566
Submitted by:   Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>

General cleanup: use DOCSDIR & EXAMPLESDIR.

PR:             41864
Submitted by:   Sergei Kolobov <skolobov@globcon.net>
Approved by:    maintainer

- update to 2.3.9
- USE_REINPLACE
- pass maintainership to submitter

Submitted by:   Anders Andersson <anders@hack.org>

Update to 2.3.7.

- update to 2.3.3
- use MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR to fetch old versions when the author releases a
  new versions so the port isn't broken between versions

Update to 2.2.0    

Update to 2.1.8.    

Update to 2.1.6    

Update to 2.1.5    

Update to 2.1.4    

Change my email address to petef@FreeBSD.org for the ports I maintain.    

Update to 2.1.3   Change MAINTAINER    

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