Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem

On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote:
Have a bit of a drama..

Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and
fetchmail is running as a cron job.

When I run it manually, it's fine.



When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following:



fetchmail: can't find a password for root@fetchmail.



Any ideas?

It would help to see your fetchmailrc file (just remove the passwords).

Regards

Clive

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