getmail crashes with a MemoryError

[Dan Drake]

Occasionally, getmail crashes while retrieving mail. It uses up a couple gigabytes of memory and eventually gets killed. I'm attaching the exception that cron emails to me and the results of "getmail --dump"

I'm using an updated Jaunty 64-bit system with 4 gigabytes of RAM.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in getmail4.

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[osamu (osamu)]

This bug was reported to jaunty and getmail version 4.8.4 is recorded in bug log.

Since Jaunty package only had 4.8.4-1 this should be associated to 4.8.4-1 .

The upstream current version is 4.20.0. I recommend Ubuntu to backport from Debian sid.

2 other bugs I see are for older ones.

[Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire)]

This is a bug in Python's IMAP library, see http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-notabug-memory

Reassigning to Python.

[Jonathan Wiltshire (jwiltshire)]

Python maintainer, reporter: This bug may already be fixed in the most recent versions of Python IMAP library, please test.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Support for this version has ended