getmail problem

[Pierre Frenkiel]

hi,

the problem with getmail is that it ignores my .getmailrc file:
it is configured with gmail:

server = imap.gmail.com
...
poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP auth password

but the getmail command gives:
    SimpleIMAPRetriever:p.fre...@imap.laposte.net:143:

   getmailrc: credential/login error (LOGIN command error: BAD
[b'invalid command'])

( my config is  in ~.getmailrc and .getmail/getmailrc )

has anybody an explanation?

best regards

Pierre Frenkiel

[Christoph Brinkhaus]

Am Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 08:18:07PM +0200 schrieb Pierre Frenkiel:

Hi Pierre,

Just a short in the dark - can it be that gmail does not accept imap on
port 143 anymore? Instead of imap please try imaps on port 993.

Kind regards,
Christoph

[Anssi Saari]

Pierre Frenkiel <pierre....@gmail.com> writes:

> hi,
>
> the problem with getmail is that it ignores my .getmailrc file:

[...]

> ( my config is  in ~.getmailrc and .getmail/getmailrc )

The latter should work. Run getmail --dump to see what it says
about the configuration file location. Since I don't know how to
configure getmail I put in what you showed into ~/.getmail/getmailrc and
got this output:

$ getmail --dump
Configuration error: configuration file /home/users/zz/.getmail/getmailrc incorrect (File contains no section headers.
file: '/home/users/zz/.getmail/getmailrc', line: 1
'server = imap.gmail.com\n')

So while my configuration is obviously wrong, at least getmail tells me
which configuration file it's reading. From the documentation and code
~/.config/getmailrc seems to be the first choice if that exists,
~/.getmail/getmailrc is the second.