Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 06 October 2003 09:55 pm, Mark wrote: Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 07 Oct 2003 2:55 am, Mark wrote: Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I can

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 07 October 2003 12:43 am, Mark wrote: I checked, there was a blank /etc/fetchmailrc. I copied the info over, but I don't think if it was using that config file, it would have gotten ANY email at all. I didn't use fetchmailconf, as it didn't work, so I edited the file manually. I

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-07 Thread Mark
Ok, I'm running fetchmail --nokeep as a root cron hourly, and my /root/.fetchmailrc is as follows: poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is mark here nokeep poll mail.voyager.net proto pop3 user pass is pauline here nokeep If I log in as root, and just issue the command

[newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-06 Thread Mark
Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I can tell, the commands should use the same

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 06 October 2003 09:55 pm, Mark wrote: Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run the fetchmail command as a cron job from root, the messages are NOT purged off the server. As far as I

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-06 Thread Mark
I checked, there was a blank /etc/fetchmailrc. I copied the info over, but I don't think if it was using that config file, it would have gotten ANY email at all. I didn't use fetchmailconf, as it didn't work, so I edited the file manually. Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 09:55

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem with duplicate messages

2003-10-06 Thread Mark
according to /var/log/messages, the cron job is opening as root at the right times. Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 09:55 pm, Mark wrote: Does anyone know why if I run fetchmail from a console as root, all my email downloads and the server purges the emails fine, but if I run

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
To start out, run this command. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ rpm -qa | grep fetchmail fetchmail-5.7.4-5mdk [timh@r2d2 timh]$ which fetchmailconf which: no fetchmailconf in (SNIP) Now that I look at it, I'm not sure why my workstation doesn't have the daemon installed, but here's what your *should* look

[newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-07-09 Thread Roger Sherman
I have fetchmail configured (using fetchmailconf) to fetch my email (typical ISP email) every 5 minutes. For about ten minutes, it worked great, as it always had on previous installations of Mandrake I've had (currently I've dropped back from 8.0 to 7.2). But for some reason, it stopped working.

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 10:55 pm, you wrote: Thanks, problem taken care of...courtesy Mark Weaver, who is the man! peace, Rog You are very kind Rog...now if I can get this Cups thing sorted out as easily I will be a very happy linux camper. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts

[newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-01 Thread Roger Sherman
I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and sure enough, theres a ton of email on my server

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 06:15 pm, you wrote: I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-01 Thread Roger Sherman
Thanks, problem taken care of...courtesy Mark Weaver, who is the man! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Meph Istopheles wrote: Roger [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File