View the most recent changes for the getmail port at: getmail.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for getmail.
The raw portfile for getmail 4.13.0 is located here:
http://getmail.darwinports.com/dports/mail/getmail/Portfile
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The getmail Portfile 59633 2009-10-18 11:23:43Z mww macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup python26 1.0

Name: getmail
Version: 4.13.0
Category: mail python
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: mww
Description: extensible mail retrieval system with POP3, IMAP4, SSL support
Long Description: getmail version 4 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.

Homepage: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/
Master Sites: ${homepage}/old-versions/
Checksums: md5 e1b290c36912e62446dfc9a5203539ca sha1 64a80dcd465da9e5aae60615eeb6e04c59175b80 rmd160 9cda5699a5b5e302184b44e602951e7f1c143f74
dist_subdir ${name}
Patch Files: patch-setup.py.diff

post-destroot {
foreach binfile [glob -tails -directory ${destroot}${python.prefix}/bin *] {
ln -s ${python.prefix}/bin/${binfile} ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/${binfile}
}
foreach manfile [glob -tails -directory ${destroot}${python.prefix}/share/man/man1 *] {
ln -s ${python.prefix}/share/man/man1/${manfile} ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man1/${manfile}
}
delete ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc/${name}
move ${destroot}${python.prefix}/share/doc/${name} ${destroot}${prefix}/share/doc
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/getmail
%  sudo port install getmail  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching getmail
--->  Verifying checksum for getmail
--->  Extracting getmail
--->  Configuring getmail
--->  Building getmail with target all

--->  Staging getmail into destroot

--->  Installing getmail

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using getmail with these commands:

%  man getmail
%  apropos getmail
%  which getmail
%  locate getmail

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