[GTALUG] Sane Email System?

[Peter King]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 10:24:11AM -0500, Znoteer via talk wrote:

> FYI re getmail
> 
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 09:41:15AM -0500, David Thornton via talk wrote:
> > Google tells me that getmail  and mutt can talk oauth2.
> > 
> Beware, there are two getmail programmes.  The original is by Charles
> Cazabon at pyropus.ca and doesn't (yet??) work with python3.
> 
> Someone took this code and ran it through a python 2 to 3 converter and
> distributed it with the same name.  I found out the hard way that Debian
> uses this new version in Bullseye to avoid having to maintain both python 2
> and 3, but keeps the getmail name.  Charles doesn't support it, obviously,
> but it has caused some headaches because it appears to have picked up some
> bugs after passing through the 2->3 converter.

Thanks.  The revamped version is packaged as "getmail6" on Arch Linux, and
that's the one installed on my system.  I have seen some notes about using
an external oauth2 program with Charles's version, but, as someone noted,
it looks pretty clunky.  I'm currently trying to find out whether it is
possible to do the same under getmail6.

And, to be fair, depending on python 2 these days is a bit out of date.

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