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From: Phill Edwards
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 04:37

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"Greg Gailer" <g_gailer@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Greetings
> 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.
>
> Greg Gailer
> g_gailer@yahoo.com.au

You don't have to run fetchmail form cron. In the fetchmailrc file you can
make it run in daemon mode and tell it how often to poll the mail servers.
Eg:

        set daemon 300

makes it run in daemon mode and poll every 5 minutes. No cron required.

Regards,
Phill

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