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Article #109Re: Fetchmail - setup question
From: Maurice Janssen
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:00
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:00
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In comp.os.linux.networking, Greg Gailer wrote: >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. It's not fetchmail that is sending those emails, but cron. Any output from a cron job is 'captured' by cron and sent to the owner of the cron job. If you redirect the standard output from fetchmail to /dev/null (by adding "> /dev/null" to the end of the fetchmail command) no output from fetchmail is seen by cron and no email will be sent. -- Maurice mauricej (at) xs4all (dot) nl
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From: Maurice Janssen <this@is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Fetchmail - setup question
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:00:30 +0000 (UTC)
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