On 07/27/2014 11:06 PM, Damon Register wrote:
Why not just T'Bird at it in the first place? That's what I did here years ago, before I moved all my email off to a mail server hub and ran Are you telling me that Thunderbird can directly access computer B's system mail without having to repackage as pop3 the way I have been doing it? If so, that certainly would simplify what I am trying to do. Does it matter if Thunderbird is on Windows computer A while SuSE computer B has the system mail of interest?
Before this revelation I was assuming that you were talking about a single machine and all the files were on the same machine that Thunderbird was running on. You had not mentioned this upstairs/downstairs separation before. While there are techniques for file sharing they are also complicated compared to the one-liner in the crontab. On a personal note, I am a believer in what Marcus Ranum once termed "Artificial Ignorance". As in "I don't want to know". Most UNIX CLI commands are silent in that they tell you what you ask for. They aren't like VAX/VMS where every CLI command reposts it completion status to the terminal. Marcus gave the example of an umbrella which notified you of every raindrop it stopped. You don't need to know hen things are working properly. My POV is that I get enough mail as it is. I don't want more "as a matter of course". Does the content of the mail from the cron job matter? I'm reminded of a sales manager I knew who had a 2" high printout delivered every day. Only one line of that mattered to him but the way IT was set up it was all those hundreds of pages of 66 line blue and white print out on perforated paper or nothing. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org