Re: s/getmail/getmail6 before freeze (package superseding)

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2025, Jean-Yves Migeon (NetBSD) wrote:

> Le 30/08/2025 à 19:38, Hisashi T Fujinaka a écrit :
> >  I was a getmail user and I never could get getmail6 to work correctly. I
> >  had to switch to imapsync to get rid of python2.
>
> You can give it a try again and report back to me. The multiprocessing part 
> of getmail was messy (which is pretty much what getmail uses for filtering 
> and delivering).
>
> I had to track down a few bugs, notably one that involved "infinite" thread 
> sleep because it originally used pthread condvar for signal handler 
> synchronization. That could deadlock even on GNU/Linux depending on 
> scheduling [1]
>
> [1] https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/issues/245

That could've been my issue, but now I'm just using imapsync and no
procmail.

I just brought it up in case there were others who had the same issue.
Removing it after the freeze would be my choice, but I don't think I
should be the decider here.

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