You can reduce the output to a single line with the --silent option on
the fetchmail invocation.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Morsal Roudbay
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
From: "Cron Daemon"
To: Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 9:20 PM Subject: Cron /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
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