You can have all this out put go to a log file and that will prevent the email notifies. set logfile <wherever you want it to be> .fetchmaillog or fetchmaillog All the messages specified below get put into this file for me. * Morsal Roudbay (morsal@swipnet.se) [010429 12:50]: =>this is an example msg I get from cron => =>there must be a way to stop cron from sending notification msgs every time =>the job is ran => => =>----- Original Message ----- =>From: "Cron Daemon" <root@firebox.local> =>To: <mr@firebox.local> =>Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 9:20 PM =>Subject: Cron <mr@firebox> /usr/bin/fetchmail => => =>> 6 messages for mt51692 at tellus.swipnet.se (20468 octets). =>> reading message 1 of 6 (3016 octets) .. flushed =>> reading message 2 of 6 (2295 octets) .. flushed =>> reading message 3 of 6 (2815 octets) .. flushed =>> reading message 4 of 6 (3594 octets) ... flushed =>> reading message 5 of 6 (2231 octets) .. flushed =>> reading message 6 of 6 (6517 octets) ...... flushed =>> fetchmail: No mail for morsal at mail.bolina.hsb.se =>> fetchmail: No mail for mr at mail.bolina.hsb.se =>> => => =>-- =>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com =>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com =>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the =>archives at http://lists.suse.com => -- 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.