On 07/28/2014 01:32 PM, Damon Register wrote:
On 7/28/2014 4:14 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Except that he neglected to say that the "reading" happened on a different machine than the one where the system mail originated. That changes everything and explains why qpopper was a good solution.
True, and I will have to accept that I could have provided more detail.
*ALWAYS* Provide detail! As I hope I made clear, with one machine qpopper/dovecot is unnecessary. As I also hope we've made clear there is more than one way to get mail notification from cron even with two machines, and not need qpopper/dovecot.
I just never imagined that the topic could have drifted so much to where such detail becomes important.
Since it pretty fundamental I'm not sure you should call it a detail. A 'detail" might be you not telling us whether you are using Dovecot v1 or dovecot v2.
My original question was and still is how to configure dovecot to do what I did with qpopper,
That will depend on a detail you haven't told us yet: whether you are using Dovecot v1 or dovecot v2.
Other than to judge the sanity of my approach, I don't see the relevance of knowing if the computers are same or separate.
Its not about 'sanity'. There are things you can do on a single machine that you can't do on two separate machines. And there are things you can do with two Linux machines that you can't do with a Linux machine and windows machine.
Qpopper's website explains what qpopper does in a seemingly simple way.
[snip] transfer and delivery agents such as sendmail or smail.
That it mentions those and not Postfix (which has been the Linux standard for over a decade), Smail-3 (which replaced smail in about 1990-something), exim (which is the most common alternative to Postfix for Linux users who are frightened by the apparent complexity of Postfix) tells you just, or at least tells me, how out of date that information is.
That said, sure I am up for learning new things. If there are alternate and possibly better ways to accomplish something, I wouldn't mind at least trying.
Larry Wall said "There's more than one way to do things". With Linux that is such a gross understatement! The thing is not only did you not tell us about the two machines, not only have you not told us what version of Dovecot you are running, not only have you not told us whether the email is the cron daemon reporting by email or if it is the task that the cron daemon runs which reports by mail, but you haven't told us what the task the cron daemon runs *does*. It is quite possible that "the better way" might involve not using cron at all. Who knows? We certainly don't because you are not telling us these "details". -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org