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Morsal Roudbay

29 Apr 2001 29 Apr '01

16:23

Hi! I have setup cron to run fetchmail every 10 minutes. Every time fetchmail is ran a msg is sent to my inbox, it's very annoying... so I wonder how I can turn this off? TIA

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dizzy73

29 Apr 29 Apr

18:41

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

run the cron job from user cron rather than /etc/crontab do a crontab -u root -e will put you in edit mode for roots crontab enter the cron scheduling and you will not receive themail notice rob Morsal Roudbay wrote:

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Hi! I have setup cron to run fetchmail every 10 minutes. Every time fetchmail is ran a msg is sent to my inbox, it's very annoying... so I wonder how I can turn this off?

TIA

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Ben Rosenberg

19:05

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

* Morsal Roudbay (morsal@swipnet.se) [010429 12:04]: =>thanks for your email => =>sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers =>the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc..... => => I run fetchmail, but I don't get any of these weird messages..with the acception of failure messages if the popserver is unreachable. Post your .fetchmailrc and lets take a look at this. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

Morsal Roudbay

19:07

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

thanks for your email sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "dizzy73" Cc: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

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run the cron job from user cron rather than /etc/crontab

do a

crontab -u root -e

will put you in edit mode for roots crontab

enter the cron scheduling and you will not receive themail notice

rob

Morsal Roudbay wrote:

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Hi! I have setup cron to run fetchmail every 10 minutes. Every time fetchmail is ran a msg is sent to my inbox, it's very annoying... so I wonder how I can turn this off?

TIA

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Nick Zentena

19:17

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

On April 29, 2001 03:05 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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* Morsal Roudbay (morsal@swipnet.se) [010429 12:04]: =>thanks for your email => =>sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers =>the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc..... => =>

I run fetchmail, but I don't get any of these weird messages..with the acception of failure messages if the popserver is unreachable. Post your .fetchmailrc and lets take a look at this.

The problem is he is repeatly calling fetchmail from cron instead of putting fetchmail into deamon mode. Nick

Ben Rosenberg

19:20

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

* dizzy73 (dizzy73@connix.com) [010429 12:15]: => =>Of course it works ;-) => =>You set the crontab for *root*, and the fetchmail.rc can point to and deliver =>mail to the correct mailboxes based on the fetchmail.rc file => =>briefly in the fetchmail.rc file => =>nonroot there is root here =>someotheruserthere is localuserhere =>anotheruserthere is thirdlinuxuserhere => =>etc .... => => =>if you just have one user set the crontab up under that user if its multiple =>users either setup a crontab for each... or a fetchmail.rc under root for all =>users at once => Rob, I would let mail go to the default and let the users have a .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc for putting mail where they want it. It's just a matter of having a skel file for these. Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

Morsal Roudbay

19:47

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

The msgs I get are simply output from the command fetchmail. :) It's not any error messages. Here is my fetchmailrc: ___________________________ poll tellus.swipnet.se proto pop3 user "blaa" pass "lala" poll mail.bolina.hsb.se proto pop3 user "bla" pass "lala" poll mail.bolina.hsb.se proto pop3 user "blaba" pass "lala" ___________________________ Thanks for your time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Rosenberg" To: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

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* Morsal Roudbay (morsal@swipnet.se) [010429 12:04]: =>thanks for your email => =>sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers =>the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc..... => =>

I run fetchmail, but I don't get any of these weird messages..with the acception of failure messages if the popserver is unreachable. Post your .fetchmailrc and lets take a look at this.

-- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

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Morsal Roudbay

19:50

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Sounds good, please take a look at my fetchmailrc I sent in another reply in this thread. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "dizzy73" Cc: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

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Of course it works ;-)

You set the crontab for *root*, and the fetchmail.rc can point to and

deliver

...

mail to the correct mailboxes based on the fetchmail.rc file

briefly in the fetchmail.rc file

nonroot there is root here someotheruserthere is localuserhere anotheruserthere is thirdlinuxuserhere

etc ....

if you just have one user set the crontab up under that user if its multiple users either setup a crontab for each... or a fetchmail.rc under root for all users at once

rob

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morsal Roudbay wrote:

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thanks for your email

sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc.....

----- Original Message ----- From: "dizzy73" Cc: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

...
run the cron job from user cron rather than /etc/crontab

do a

crontab -u root -e

will put you in edit mode for roots crontab

enter the cron scheduling and you will not receive themail notice

rob

Morsal Roudbay wrote:

...
Hi! I have setup cron to run fetchmail every 10 minutes. Every time fetchmail is ran a msg is sent to my inbox, it's very annoying... so I wonder how I can turn this off?

TIA

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dizzy73

20:22

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

Of course it works ;-) You set the crontab for *root*, and the fetchmail.rc can point to and deliver mail to the correct mailboxes based on the fetchmail.rc file briefly in the fetchmail.rc file nonroot there is root here someotheruserthere is localuserhere anotheruserthere is thirdlinuxuserhere etc .... if you just have one user set the crontab up under that user if its multiple users either setup a crontab for each... or a fetchmail.rc under root for all users at once rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morsal Roudbay wrote:

...

thanks for your email

sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc.....

----- Original Message ----- From: "dizzy73" Cc: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

...
run the cron job from user cron rather than /etc/crontab

do a

crontab -u root -e

will put you in edit mode for roots crontab

enter the cron scheduling and you will not receive themail notice

rob

Morsal Roudbay wrote:

...
Hi! I have setup cron to run fetchmail every 10 minutes. Every time fetchmail is ran a msg is sent to my inbox, it's very annoying... so I wonder how I can turn this off?

TIA

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dizzy73

21:58

New subject: [SLE] cron notification

from man fetchmail -->see man fetchmail -s, --silent Silent mode. Suppresses all progress/status messages that are normally echoed to standard error during a fetch (but does not suppress actual error messages). The --verbose option overrides this. Keyword Opt Function ------------------------------------------------------------- set logfile Name of a file to dump error and status messages to set nosyslog Turn off error logging through syslog(3). my .fetchmailrc <does not have error supression> set postmaster "dizzy73" set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" poll myprovider.com with proto POP3 user 'dizzy73' there with password '#$%$#' is dizzy73 here rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morsal Roudbay wrote:

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Sounds good, please take a look at my fetchmailrc I sent in another reply in this thread. :)

----- Original Message ----- From: "dizzy73" Cc: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

...
Of course it works ;-)

You set the crontab for *root*, and the fetchmail.rc can point to and

deliver

...
mail to the correct mailboxes based on the fetchmail.rc file

briefly in the fetchmail.rc file

nonroot there is root here someotheruserthere is localuserhere anotheruserthere is thirdlinuxuserhere

etc ....

if you just have one user set the crontab up under that user if its multiple users either setup a crontab for each... or a fetchmail.rc under root for all users at once

rob

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Morsal Roudbay wrote:

...
thanks for your email

sorry to say this, but what u said doesnt work because fetchmail delivers the email to the user that runs the .fetchmailrc.....

----- Original Message ----- From: "dizzy73" Cc: "SLE" Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 8:41 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] cron notification

...
run the cron job from user cron rather than /etc/crontab

do a

crontab -u root -e

will put you in edit mode for roots crontab

enter the cron scheduling and you will not receive themail notice

rob

Morsal Roudbay wrote:

...
Hi! I have setup cron to run fetchmail every 10 minutes. Every time fetchmail is ran a msg is sent to my inbox, it's very annoying... so I wonder how I can turn this off?

TIA

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