diff --git a/getmail/.footprint b/getmail/.footprint
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..34beaa68d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/getmail/.footprint
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/getmail
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/getmail_fetch
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/getmail_maildir
+-rwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/bin/getmail_mbox
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/__init__.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/__init__.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/_pop3ssl.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/_pop3ssl.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/_retrieverbases.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/baseclasses.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/baseclasses.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/constants.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/constants.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/destinations.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/destinations.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/exceptions.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/exceptions.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/filters.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/filters.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/logging.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/logging.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/message.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/message.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/retrievers.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/retrievers.pyc
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/utilities.py
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/getmailcore/utilities.pyc
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/man/man1/
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/getmail.1.gz
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/getmail_fetch.1.gz
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/getmail_maildir.1.gz
+-rw-r--r--	root/root	usr/man/man1/getmail_mbox.1.gz
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	usr/share/
diff --git a/getmail/.md5sum b/getmail/.md5sum
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index 000000000..85866eee6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/getmail/.md5sum
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+17eda7b41ef9bf3eccccd907ecec5f3d  getmail-4.7.2.tar.gz
+31c54fec5587b8d6076eafe42c091a66  getmail.diff
diff --git a/getmail/Pkgfile b/getmail/Pkgfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3019e0c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/getmail/Pkgfile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Description: POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery
+# URL:         http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
+# Maintainer:  James Mills, prologic at shortcircuit dot net dot au
+# Packager:    Han Boetes, han at mijncomputer dot nl
+#
+# Depends on:  python
+
+name=getmail
+version=4.7.2
+release=1
+source=(http://pyropus.ca/software/$name/old-versions/$name-$version.tar.gz
+        getmail.diff)
+
+build() {
+	cd $name-$version
+	patch -i $SRC/getmail.diff
+	python setup.py install --root=$PKG
+	rm -rf $PKG/usr/share/doc
+	sed -i 's|#!/usr/bin/python|& -Wignore:.:DeprecationWarning:.:0|' $PKG/usr/bin/getmail
+	chown -R root:root $PKG
+}
diff --git a/getmail/getmail.diff b/getmail/getmail.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5467cebe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/getmail/getmail.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	Tue Aug 10 12:32:15 2004
++++ setup.py	Tue Aug 10 12:32:49 2004
+@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
+ 
+ GETMAILMANDIR = os.path.join(
+     datadir or prefix,
+-    'share',
+     'man',
+     'man1'
+ )