Python 2.7.3-0ubuntu3.8 causes retreival errors on long POP3 message lines

[Andrew Berry]

Getmail is unable to retrieve messages over POP3 that have lines longer than 2048 characters. This blocks downloading of further messages even if they don't hit that limit.

This is fixed in getmail 4.48.0: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/CHANGELOG

A workaround is to edit /usr/lib/python2.7/poplib.py and set _MAXLINE to a large number, retrieve messages, and then set it back to 2048.

Relevant upstream bugs:

https://bugs.python.org/issue16041
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-1752
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782614

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.