On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:40:43PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:14:33 -0600 > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the subject line is the question. creating a personal crontab was > > easy, but fetchmail running under cron sends a whole bunch of mail > > to root which, since i'm sysadmin on my own machine, clutters up > > my email. > > > > -- > > Paul E Condon > > > > I do it without incurring the excessive mail to root. > > My personal account crontab: > # Fetch mail from mail server > */2 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -s > > My .fetchmailrc: > set postmaster "raquel" > set bouncemail > set properties "" > > poll server.domain.com with proto POP3 timeout 300 > user "username" there with password "password" is username > here options fetchall warnings 3600; > > Am I missing something? >
I found 'set syslog' in some instructions for fetchmailconfig. Sorry for the noise. And, yes '-s' cuts the messages by a lot. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
