Hello Jason,
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Here is my config file without the lines containing usernames and
> > passwords:
> >
> > # Configuration created Thu Oct 3 14:40:04 2002 by fetchmailconf
> > set syslog
>
> I believe removing the above line should fix the problem. We have from
> the (6.2.5 and 6.3.1) man page:
>
> The --syslog option (keyword: set syslog) allows you to redirect
> status and error messages emitted to the syslog(3) system daemon if
> available.
>
> Sorry, but I'm not sure why the output went to the console with your
> previous installation.
Well, in a sense it does but it is not as it used to be:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ fetchmail
2 messages for 14308112 at pop.gmx.net (231717 octets).
reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 2 (2985 octets) ..fetchmail:
SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/bin/procmail -d
%T flushed
reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 of 2 (228732 octets)
...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
flushed
I saw this in the manpage of fetchmail:
The --syslog option (keyword: set syslog) allows you to redirect
status and error messages emitted to the syslog(3)
system daemon if available. Messages are logged with an id of
fetchmail, the facility LOG_MAIL, and priorities
LOG_ERR, LOG_ALERT or LOG_INFO. This option is intended for
logging status and error messages which indicate the
status of the daemon and the results while fetching mail from the
server(s).
and in the past it used to be:
set syslog Do error logging through syslog(3).
Well, I guess I have to live with it - it seems like it is a upstream
change ?! If you look at the descripption of --showdots command line
option you'll see that fetchmail is supposed to write the dots if it is
attached to a tty, but ... By the way I just noticed that the --logfile
option doesn't produce a logfile as suggested no matter if "set syslog" is
in the config file or not.
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