Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-22 Thread Stroller
On 21 Sep 2009, at 17:06, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... To not to involve stdout was the hack! Currently I am running fetchmail via fcron and does what it should since fetchmail directly reports to /dev/null. Sorry to seem like a numptie, but are you saying you fixed it? The problem was

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:46:27 +0100, Stroller wrote: The notion of daemon mode bothers me, because it must be run by root Users can run in daemon mode too, although that means you'll have one daemon running for each user. (IIRC) and the various users all put their separate private email

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my crontab says: 0-59/4 * * * */usr/bin/fetchmail

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-21 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [09-09-21 17:13]: On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. Here my

[gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-20 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have used for testing the following combo: Configured fetchmail for my user account and configured procmail to deliver the mail. I called fetchmail by hand: It works. In my fetchmailrc there is the line mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T as said: When started by hand everything is fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron fetchmail procmail and the why not?

2009-09-20 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When using the line:    @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with    fetchmail -a from the commandline. May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing