On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 16:33, Matthew Gregan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:48:10PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > Ah, running fetchmail as root in daemon mode. > > Running fetchmail as root scares me. > > > Personally, I like some more fine-control over some of the options. > > > Running fetchmail via cron has the downside that it doesn't warn if > > mails haven't been retrieved because they were larger than allowed (had > > 2 sitting at the ISP for 2 months before I noticed). Studying the man > > page gives that fetchmail uses the same exit code for "no mail > > retrieved because there wasn't any" and "some mail not retrieved > > because it was too big". This is seriously deficient. > > Well, you do have source. I've had a poke around in the fetchmail > source before[0], and I don't think it would be particularly difficult make > fetchmail return a useful return code on exit.
man fetchmail near the end -- Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
