getmail(1) fails to start: $ getmail ImportError: No module named getmailcore I've done ``emerge world'' yesterday, FWIW. I've changed the getmail's shebang line from ``#!/usr/bin/python'' to ``#!/usr/bin/python2.3'', and it works again. eix(1) says dev-lang/python has versions 2.3.5-r2 and 2.4.2 installed.
so i guess you've installed/updated getmail before installing python-2.4.2. python ebuild should have warned you to run `/usr/sbin/python-updater` after upgrading python. To solve the problem reemerge getmail! See where getmailcore is (before and after reemerging): `equery files getmail | grep python` or `qlist getmail | grep python`