Hi, * Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> [2009-05-27 18:15]: > When using fetchmail in a cron job to fetch mail regularly (because > daemon mode is still not reliable, and yes, I've reported it and tried > and failed to help fix it), it's annoying that "no mail", which is a > perfectly normal condition, returns an error code, as it means I have to > write a wrapper script (or a very long cron job line!) to differentiate > between that and a "real" error. > > Hence, an option to return exit code 0 in the case where there is no new > mail would be most handy.
I fail to see why you can't just write a script, calling that from cron and let the script properly evaluate the return value. I also see no problem with returning 0 in this case though but I might miss any setups in which this would be a problem. Matthias, what is your opinion on this? Cheeres Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - [email protected] - GPG: 0x73647CFF For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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