http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4442 <pre>Hi all! I'm discovered that getmail does not return with a non-zero exit code when authentication fails. This seems to be shortly discussed also in this mail http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4197 where Charles mentions that it should indeed return with a non-zero exit code but. Is this implemented somewhere? Details: I'm using getmail-4.27.0 from the original tarball. Output of the --dump call: getmail version 4.27.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. getmail configuration: getmail version 4.27.0 Python version 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) [GCC 4.4.5] retriever: BrokenUIDLPOP3Retriever(getmaildir="/home/stephan/.getmail/", password="*", port="110", server="pop.gmx.net", timeout="180", use_apop="False", username="xxxxxx") destination: MDA_external(allow_root_commands="False", arguments="()", command="deliver", group="None", ignore_stderr="False", path="/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver", unixfrom="False", user="None") options: delete : True delete_after : 0 delivered_to : True logfile : None max_bytes_per_session : 0 max_message_size : 0 max_messages_per_session : 0 message_log : None message_log_syslog : False message_log_verbose : False read_all : True received : True verbose : 2 and here is the config file content: [retriever] type = BrokenUIDLPOP3Retriever server = pop.gmx.net username = xxxxxxx password = xxxxxxx [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver [options] delete = true </pre> Stephan Schulz 2012-05-22T09:38:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4441 <pre>Greetings, getmail version 4.27.0 has been released and is available for download at the usual place: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ Changes since the previous version include: Version 4.27.0 20 May 2012 -make use of IMAP BODY.PEEK configurable; set the IMAP retriever parameter `use_peek` to False to disable use of PEEK to get getmail's historical IMAP behaviour. Charles </pre> Charles Cazabon 2012-05-20T18:33:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4440 <pre>Greetings, getmail version 4.27.0 has been released and is available for download at the usual place: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ Changes since the previous version include: Version 4.27.0 20 May 2012 -make use of IMAP BODY.PEEK configurable; set the IMAP retriever `use_peek` to False to disable use of PEEK to get getmail's historical IMAP behaviour. Charles </pre> Charles Cazabon 2012-05-20T18:32:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4437 <pre> I was not aware of the difference between "seen" and "new", thanks for explaining. In mutt I now have "set mark_old=yes" which indeed helped at least for some imap servers (not with Exchange btw.) Unfortunately I often need to access IMAP servers via webmail interfaces, in particular "squirrelmail" and "outlook webapp". Both only seem support "seen", but not "new". Can I configure getmail, so that it flags retrieved messages as "seen"? </pre> Andreas Amann 2012-05-11T15:10:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4435 <pre>I just upgraded to getmail 4.26.0, which now uses BODY.PEEK per default. However this change is inconvenient for my setup, because it does not change the "new" flag of retrieved messages. Would it be possible to make BODY.PEEK configurable? To clarify why I have a problem with the new behavior, here is my current setup: I regularly fetch my mail with getmail to read on my main computer. I leave a month worth of messages on the imap server, so that I can easily access them when I am out of office. When I do that, I am mostly interested in the messages which arrived after I have last fetched messages with getmail. In previous versions of getmail before 4.26.0 they were conveniently flagged as "new". Now however, fetched messages retain the new status on the imap server , and it is not easy to spot the messages which require attention. I understand that the majority of users prefers the new behavior or do not care, so I would of course not mind if the default for IMAP retrieval was "BODY.PEEK", as long as there is an easy way to switch to the old retrieval mechanism. Alternatively, I would appreciate any other suggestions to overcome this problem. Andreas </pre> Andreas Amann 2012-05-11T12:46:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4431 <pre>Hi, I need help getting getmail to work on virtual box guest of Fedora 16, and the host is mac OSX I installed as per the documentation and did the basic configuration to retrieve email, and here is the output $ getmail getmail version 4.26.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimpleIMAPRetriever:manalweb2012&lt; at &gt;imap.googlemail.com:143: oldmail file /home/mhelal/.getmail/oldmail-imap.googlemail.com-143-manalweb2012-INBOX not found, reverting to /home/mhelal/.getmail/oldmail-imap.googlemail.com-143-manalweb2012 getmailrc: socket error ([Errno 110] Connection timed out) 0 messages (0 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped I am testing with telnet on both the guest and the host, and I receive the same response: telnet imap.googlemail.com 993 Trying 74.125.134.16... Connected to imap.googlemail.com. Escape character is '^]'. so it is not the virtual box bridging problem, The Mac host has the firewall diabled, and now I checked on Fedora and enabled IMAPs and POPs and there seems no option to block them. I appreciate if you can help resolve this problem, thank you very much, Manal </pre> Manal Tests 2012-05-02T04:09:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4425 <pre>I am attempting to use getmail to poll several accounts (using SimpleIMAPRetriever) and am running in to what appears to be a reasonably widespread problem. When I set 'delete = true' as an option, I am getting 'IMAP error (INBOX is not writable)' for several different providers, including both Gmail and AOL. I know both of these providers do allow writing to their INBOX and deleting of e-mail. Looking at some tcpdump output, my first guess is that use of the 'EXAMINE' command is giving Getmail some false impressions about the permissions of the mail folder. Not deleting the e-mail isn't an option; can anyone give me some help here? ===== getmailrc ===== [retriever] type = SimpleIMAPRetriever server = imap.aol.com username = myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com password = mypassword [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/bin/mylocal_mda [options] verbose = 2 message_log_verbose = true delete = true delivered_to = 1 max_messages_per_session = 2 timeout = 120 ===== End getmailrc ===== ===== Getmail Output ===== getmail version 4.26.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimpleIMAPRetriever:myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com&lt; at &gt;imap.aol.com:143: oldmail file tmp/imap.aol.com/myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com/temp/oldmail-imap.aol.com-143-myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com-INBOX not found, reverting to tmp/imap.aol.com/myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com/temp/oldmail-imap.aol.com-143-myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com getmailrc: operation error (IMAP error (INBOX is not writable)) 0 messages (0 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped IMAP error during logout (mailbox status changed to READ-ONLY) ===== End Getmail Output ===== ===== IMAP Conversation ===== * OK IMAP4 ready HADA0 CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS ID NAMESPACE LOGIN-REFERRALS IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=XAOL-UAS-MB STARTTLS HADA0 OK completed HADA1 LOGIN "myusername&lt; at &gt;aol.com" "mypassword" * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 BINARY CATENATE CHILDREN ESEARCH ID IDLE LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS NAMESPACE QUOTA SASL-IR UIDPLUS UNSELECT WITHIN X-DRAFT-I04-SEARCHRES XAOL-MOVE AUTH=XAOL-UAS-MB XAOL.SPAM.REASON XAOL-MSGID HADA1 OK LOGIN completed HADA2 EXAMINE INBOX * 1 EXISTS * 0 RECENT * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1] UID validity status * OK [UIDNEXT 258] predicted next UID * FLAGS ($Submitted $XAOL-SENT \Answered \Deleted \Draft \Flagged \Seen $Forwarded $MDNSent Forwarded XAOL-CLIENT-BULK XAOL-RECEIVED XAOL-VOICEMAIL XAOL-GOOD XAOL-GOODCHECK-DONE XAOL-OFFICIAL-MAIL XAOL-CERTIFIED-MAIL XAOL-PRIORITY-MAIL XAOL-READ $hasAttached $hasEmbedded $Aggregated $Junk $NotJunk Junk JunkRecorded NonJunk NotJunk) * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags HADA2 OK [READ-ONLY] EXAMINE completed ===== End IMAP Conversation ===== Thanks in advance, -- Les </pre> Les Barstow 2012-04-18T19:45:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4423 <pre>Greetings, getmail version 4.26.0 has been released and is available for download at the usual place: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ Changes since the previous version include: Version 4.26.0 14 April 2012 -switch to using BODY.PEEK in IMAP retrieval; I no longer see problems with this feature in my testing. If users experience incompatibility with any IMAP servers where 4.25.0 worked, please let me know. Charles </pre> Charles Cazabon 2012-04-14T23:33:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4413 <pre>I currently use getmail via cron, to move mail from my ISP's mail server to my own, every five minutes. However, when waiting on a specific mail, even five minutes takes too long, so I end up manually triggering getmail anyway. I'd ideally like to switch from periodic polling to using IMAP IDLE or similar to notice mails as soon as they appear. fetchmail claims to do this, but I've had enough bad experiences with fetchmail that I don't relish the thought of trying it again. Can getmail do IMAP IDLE? (If not, could it, please?) Alternatively, does some standalone program exist that could watch with IMAP IDLE and fire off getmail when it sees new mail appear? Or, any recommendations for a different solution? - Josh Triplett </pre> Josh Triplett 2012-04-04T22:27:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4406 <pre>Hi all I've just completed an initial run on my INBOX. 12952 messages (1593495828 bytes) retrieved, 10810 skipped How do I get getmail to retry the messages which it skipped? My network connection has been flaky, so I'm sure that a lot of them just timed out. My config is dead simple: """ [options] read_all = False message_log = ~/.getmail/log """" Regards, </pre> Jean Jordaan 2012-03-23T13:37:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4392 <pre>I'm using a POP3 account configured with a SimplePOP3Retriever section. Using the delete option you can delete the email from the server but all the emails are deleted, you can't specify which emails should be deleted. Looking at the documentation, the delete option is described as delete (boolean) — if set, getmail will delete messages after retrieving and successfully delivering them. If unset, getmail will leave messages on the server after retrieving them. Default: False. I have been trying to implement a selective delete action using a Filter_classifier section, the documentation says: Filter_classifier — run the message through an external program, and insert the output of the program into X-getmail-filter-classifier: header fields in the message. Messages can be dropped by having the filter return specific exit codes. So what I have tried to do is to create a filter script which provides an appropriate return code depending on the date of the email (comparing to a fixed date passed as an argument to the filter script itself). When the email is too old (i.e. I want to delete it from the server) the filter script returns 0 and getmail says "delivered and deleted" when retrieving the email from the server. When the email is too "young" (i.e. I want to leave it on the server) then the filter script returns 99 and the email is dropped and not delivered (getmail says "dropped by filter ...., deleted). I was not expecting that the email is deleted in both cases! This is not foreseen in the delete option description reported above, I'm expecting a delete command only when the email is delivered. Fabio </pre> rossi.f< at >inwind.it 2012-03-08T15:35:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4388 <pre>Hello all, I am a newbie in using getmail, in the documentation i am not being able to find the options to perform the following operation: From a remote account accessing through IMAP i want to retrieve all messages (read and unread) from all folders (inside inbox and outside inbox), these folders often change, so i would like something that would allow not to change getmail configuration file everytime. I want to download msg with more than 10 days and afterwards delete them from the remote server. My configuration file looks something like this: [retriever] type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever server = xxxx username = xxx password = xxxx mailboxes = I don't know what to put here to automatically allow retrieve all folders [destination] type = Maildir path = xxx [options] read_all = false (this will only allow to retrieve unread msg but i would like every msg) In options i would like to retrieve email with more than 10 days. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Miguel </pre> Miguel Fernandes 2012-03-03T17:50:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4385 <pre>Greetings, I'm using getmail to fetch emails from gmail and push them to RT. since i do not have many mailboxes available, im using the + sign to try to distinguish the queue i want my emails to be sent to. this is just a background of the issue. anyhow, I've decided to use MultiSorter; which gets getmail to say (and in accordance with the documentation too) that it needs "domain mailbox retriever"; i have no clue what that is nor did i find hint/example of such a thing; probably due to my ignorance. it would be appreciated if this "domain mailbox retriever" is elaborated upon a little. (is it something like maildrop or procmail ?) Failing to use MultiSorter; i tried using MultiGuesser. it does not seem to guess correctly! here is my config: ------------------------------- [retriever] type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever server = pop.gmail.com username = rt&lt; at &gt;XXX password = YYY [destination] type = MultiGuesser default = [rt-general-queue] locals = ( ('^rt+ict&lt; at &gt;','[rt-ict-queue]'), ('^rt+misc&lt; at &gt;','[rt-general-queue]') ) [rt-general-queue] type = MDA_external path = /usr/bin/rt-mailgate user = getmail group = getmail arguments = ("--url", "http://localhost/rt", "--queue", "غير مصنّف", "--action", "correspond",) [rt-ict-queue] type = MDA_external path = /usr/bin/rt-mailgate user = getmail group = getmail arguments = ("--url", "http://localhost/rt", "--queue", "البنية المعلوماتية و الدعم التقني", "--action", "correspond",) [options] read_all = false delete_after = 8 verbose = 2 ------------------------------- It always matches the default ! this might be due best guess at what the envelope recipient of the message might have been (which again im not sure what it means!); pardon my bad English. or maybe its due to + being interpreted as regexp (but i cannot seem to find reference to what library is used for the regular expression used). last minute edit: i tried to escape the plus, it is now behaving diffrently, but im not sure its behaving correctly yet. Thanks for the great piece of software ! Cheers, Maysara </pre> Maysara A. Abdulhaq 2012-02-21T15:45:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4381 <pre>Hello All, First of all, thank you Charles for all you great work! I got getmail working within a few minutes. Documentation is great and syntax is really simple. I however have one question that the documentation and Google were not able to help me with: marking e-mails read on destination. Getmail is being used to backup mails in some cases (where it makes sense to retrieve emails and mark them as unread on destination) but in other cases it's being used as archive. Even if e-mails are read on on the retrieve side, they are marked as unread on the destination side. Is there anything I can do about it to have them marked as read on destination ? Thank you for your time Pierrick </pre> Pierrick Brossin 2012-02-11T06:53:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4380 <pre>Greetings, getmail version 4.25.0 has been released and is available for download at the usual place: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ Changes since the previous version include: Version 4.25.0 1 February 2012 -add support for storing POP/IMAP password in OSX keychain. Thanks: Adam Lazur. Charles </pre> Charles Cazabon 2012-02-01T21:37:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4376 <pre>Thanks Scott &amp; Charles! But I think 'Mailbox' keyword is for IMAP? Would it work even if I had SimplePOP3SSLRetriever? Well in any case I tried it under POP3 but no joy. Regards, andy ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: "Charles Cazabon" &lt;search-web-for-address&lt; at &gt;pyropus.ca&gt; To: getmail&lt; at &gt;lists.pyropus.ca Subject: Re: How to re-retrieve gmail already 'Read'? Date: 17 Jan 2012 17:33:22 -0600 Scott Hepler &lt;jscotth&lt; at &gt;vermontel.net&gt; wrote: No quoting of brackets should be required. Thanks for giving the solution! Charles </pre> apurugganan< at >netzero.net 2012-01-18T01:51:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4372 <pre>Hello, Using a linux live CD I was able to set up getmail for a temporary session, and was able to retrieve 3 new emails. But on my desktop, I am trying to get those 3 emails so that they will reside in my Maildir. I went back to gmail on the browser and with 'Shift+u' marked them as 'Unread'. So now, I try to fetch those 3 items with -a on the command line, throwing in -v but I get the reply below and no errors reported. How would I be able to fetch them so that I can store them? Thanks for any help. I am using: getmail version 4.20.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:andypurugganan&lt; at &gt;pop.gmail.com:995: 0 messages (0 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped Regards, Andy ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail &amp; Video Chat! http://www.netzero.net/freeemail?refcd=NZTAGOUT1FREM0210 </pre> apurugganan< at >netzero.net 2012-01-17T18:16:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4365 <pre>Hello, is there a way to skip errors while reading mails? I have this problem atm: msg 2578/10197 (4250 bytes) from &lt;ramona&lt; at &gt;foo.tld&gt; to &lt;dieter&lt; at &gt;foo.tld&gt; delivered to MDA_external command deliver (), deleted Configuration error: envelope_recipient specified header missing (delivered-to:1) After hat getmail stops because 1 stupid wrong formatted mail and now i have duplicate mails... Solutions: a) skip errors and just ignore it b) delete mails after every delivering and not after all, so i can search for the wrong formatted mail and there are no duplicates. Thanks </pre> Dieter Knopf 2011-12-12T05:00:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4362 <pre>Greetings, getmail version 4.24.0 has been released and is available for download at the usual place: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ Changes since the previous version include: Version 4.24.0 11 December 2011 -add an explicit expunge when closing an IMAP mailbox, for servers that incorrectly do not do this when the mailbox is closed. Thanks: Nicolas PomarÚde. -fix incorrect section reference for `mailboxes` parameter in documentation. Thanks: Ross Boylan. -fix getmail_fetch broken in 4.21.0. Thanks: Chris Donoghue. Charles </pre> Charles Cazabon 2011-12-12T00:15:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4359 <pre>I'm using getmail with a MDA_external destination type. I'd like to add another parameter to the MDA_external section to configure the environment where the external tool is executed. I have created a simple patch attached to this email. The patch adds an "environment" parameter to destination sections of type MDA_external. The parameter is a tuple of 2-tuples. Something similar could be used also for an external filter program section. Fabio--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: getmail-unsubscribe&lt; at &gt;lists.pyropus.ca For additional commands, e-mail: getmail-help&lt; at &gt;lists.pyropus.ca</pre> rossi.f< at >inwind.it 2011-11-26T17:14:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/4354 <pre>Hi, Using getmail_fetch I kept receiving error: getmail_fetch version 4.23.0 Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Charles Cazabon. Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2. BrokenUIDLPOP3SSLRetriever:cdonoghu&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&lt; at &gt;pop.gmail.com:995: Exception: please read docs/BUGS and include the following information in any bug report: getmail_fetch version 4.23.0 Python version 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 5 2011, 10:41:47) [GCC 4.6.1] Unhandled exception follows: File "/usr/bin/getmail_fetch", line 205, in main go(retriever, destination, options, msg) File "/usr/bin/getmail_fetch", line 51, in go retriever.initialize() TypeError: initialize() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) A working version for me was 4.20.4 and things broke some version after this. I noticed /usr/bin/getmail had retriever.initialize(options) as code changes from comparing 4.20.4 which worked for me to 4.23.0 which didn't. This changes were reflected also in the getmail_fetch script so adding this options arg at line 51 fixed things up. Thanks Chris </pre> Chris Donoghue 2011-11-22T22:13:56 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.mail.getmail.user