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p...@rick
Thanks, Patrick, but the reason for my writing is that this approach
(using the command fetchmail /dev/null 21 did not work.
It seems that if I run the command from a command prompt, it works:
the
but see that I already have /etc/default/fetchmail (I'm running
debian), which means fetchmail will start automatically on boot.
However, won't fetchmail then be run by root and not see the
set daemon 900 statement in ~/.fetchmailrc? So will fetchmail
fail to start in daemon mode for
* On Sat, May 08, 2010 05:24PM -0400 Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1
(bro...@historicalmaterialism.info) muttered:
I run fetchmail with cron, and as a result, each time it runs there's
a mail message from cron in mutt reporting what fetchmail did. It is a
nuisance to have to delete all these
