Re: Fetchmail - setup question

From: Ingo Strauch (strauch_at_mail.desy.de)
Date: 04/13/04 

Date: 13 Apr 2004 10:23:10 GMT

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:51:11 +1000, Greg Gailer wrote:
>
> I have set up fetchmail to retrieve my emails from an external server and
> deliver them to my small home network. I have a broadband connection and
> have set fetchmail up in an hourly cron job. It works wonderfully well.
> However, fetchmail sends an email to my internal user each time it is run. I
> cannot find any reference to this in the manual pages and my internal
> mailbox is rapidly filling up! Does anyone know of a way to turn this off? I
> would be quite satisfied with it only putting an entry in the syslog (which
> it is doing) and not sending the emails. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Why not start it in daemon mode via

  fetchmail <otheropts> -d 3600

Cheers,
Ingo 

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