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Install this package:

emerge -a net-mail/fetchmail

Package Information

Description:: the legendary remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility
Homepage:: https://www.fetchmail.info/
License:: GPL-2 public-domain

Versions

Version	EAPI	Keywords	Slot
6.6.8	8	~alpha amd64 arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 ~x64-solaris	0

Metadata

Maintainers

Bernard Cafarelli (voyageur@gentoo.org) - Type: person

Upstream

Remote IDs:
- sourceforge: fetchmail

Raw Metadata XML

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>voyageur@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Bernard Cafarelli</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="ntlm">Enable support for NTLM authentication (discouraged)</flag>
		<flag name="socks">Enable support for socks proxy</flag>
		<flag name="tk">Enable support for Tk GUI toolkit, in particular it installs fetchmailconf</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="sourceforge">fetchmail</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

[Warning] Ebuild 6.6.8 uses POSIX test '['. Use bash conditions '[[ ... ]]' instead.
[Warning] Ebuild 6.6.8 has a line exceeding 80 positions on line 15.
[Warning] USE flag 'kerberos' in ebuild 6.6.8 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'nls' in ebuild 6.6.8 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'selinux' in ebuild 6.6.8 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Warning] USE flag 'ssl' in ebuild 6.6.8 is not documented in metadata.xml
[Error] Manifest entry for unused DIST file 'fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz'
[Error] Repository is missing a repo-name in metadata/layout.conf or profiles/repo_name
[Notice] Package has only unstable keywords for arch(es): [ alpha, arm64, hppa, mips, riscv, s390, sparc, x64-solaris ], all versions are unstable: [ 6.6.8 ]
[Warning] Ebuild 6.6.8 uses USE flag 'selinux' purely for an optional RDEPEND. USE-controlled optional RDEPs are not acceptable except under very specific circumstances (PG0001).
[Warning] Ebuild 6.6.8 uses historic toolkit flag 'tk' but lacks the 'gui' flag. The 'gui' flag must be used to control optional GUI support.

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p net-mail/fetchmail | euse -E <flag> -p net-mail/fetchmail | euse -D <flag> -p net-mail/fetchmail

Flag	Description	6.6.8
kerberos	Add kerberos support	✓
nls	Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)	✓
ntlm	Enable support for NTLM authentication (discouraged)	✓
selinux	!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur	✓
socks	Enable support for socks proxy	✓
ssl	Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security)	✓
tk	Enable support for Tk GUI toolkit, in particular it installs fetchmailconf	✓

Files

fetchmail-6.3.26-python-optional.patch
fetchmail.conf
fetchmail.confd
fetchmail.initd
fetchmail.service
fetchmail_at.service

Manifest

Type	File	Size	Versions
DIST	fetchmail-6.6.8.tar.xz	1130232 bytes	6.6.8

Unmatched Entries

Type	File	Size

net-mail/fetchmail (gentoo)