Clive, Thankyou for your reply. I slept on it and found the problem this morning. For some reason I have the command running as 'fetchmail fetchmail -v' took out the first 'fetchmail' and it all came to life.
I haven't touched the crontab for ages so perhaps there was that bug all along that the last install was ignoring and this one picked up. Dear me, the tiredness-factor plays a big part sometimes! :-) Kind Regards, Lloyd Bayley Berowra PC Services P.O. Box 270 Berowra Heights NSW 2082 Ph: (02) 9456-0292 Mob: 0411-541-007 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.berowrapc.com -----Original Message----- From: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 9 April 2006 12:01 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: minor (major) fetchmail problem On (08/04/06 19:52), Lloyd Bayley - Berowra PC Services wrote: > Have a bit of a drama.. > > Have done this a million times before but have reinstalled a new system and > fetchmail is running as a cron job. > > When I run it manually, it's fine. > > > > When it runs as a cron job, it sends me an email with the following: > > > > fetchmail: can't find a password for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Any ideas? It would help to see your fetchmailrc file (just remove the passwords). Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]