Getmail

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Getmail

https://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
a mail retrieval, sorting, and delivering system

Getmail is a flexible, extensible mail retrieval system with support for POP3, IMAP4, SSL variants of both, maildirs, mboxrd files, external MDAs, arbitrary message filtering, single-user and domain-mailboxes, and many other useful features.

Note that this is not getmail6.

Download

https://pyropus.ca./software/getmail/old-versions/getmail-5.16.tar.gz

Decommissioned

Yes

Not updated since 2021.
Replaced by: getmail6

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Interface:daemon
• Interface:console
• Programming-language:python
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Use:email
• Use:interface
• Works-with:email

Licensing

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License

GPL-2.0-only

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Verified on

7 March 2025

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Charles Cazabon	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Users	E-mail	mailto:getmail@lists.pyropus.ca
Users & Developers	Mailing List Info/Archive	https://marc.info/?l=getmail
Developer (old versions)	Download	https://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/old-versions/

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Required to use	Python (v. 2.3.3 or later for getmail v.4 and v.5)

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