Alright, thanks. :) I'll give those a try and let you know how it goes.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:14:23AM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:55:54PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote:
> > I looked into that, and found the fetchmail init.d script, but...
> > 
> > I need to run fetchmail with the ' -a -m "procmail -d %T" ' command appended, to 
> > deliver mail for a non-root user. How would I be able to do that?
> > 
> 
> Just add '-d 300' to your fetchmail command line.
> 
> I.e.
> 
> $ fetchmail -d 300 -a -m "procmail -d %T"
> 
> (And, as was already mentioned, you can also use the mda option in your
> fetchmailrc.)
> 
> - PK
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:41:57PM -0700, Pat Kerwan wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:06:40PM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote:
> > > > Whenever a cron task executes, vcron tries to email the results to me. Each 
> > > > time it fails, and outputs "sendmail: unable to open port 25" onto the 
> > > > console. Since one of the cron jobs is to check email every 5 minutes with 
> > > > fetchmail, this is really a pain in the rear end.
> > > > 
> > > > How can I tell vcron to stop trying to email me?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure how to fix sendmail, but you could make fetchmail run in
> > > daemon mode instead of using a cron job.
> > > 
> > > You can either set up daemon mode with the -d <interval> option on the
> > > command line:
> > > 
> > >     $ fetchmail -d 300 ...
> > > 
> > > or set it up in your .fetchmailrc with the line:
> > > 
> > > set daemon 300
> > > 
> > > - PK
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