Hi! I'm using Orjan's nntp-patch and am very happy with it. As I'm on a dial-up connection most of the time, I'm using the offline mode which spools outgoing posts to a file, and NNTPPost delivers it when triggered from a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ (Debian). Another script there fetches mail, executing
/usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc
as user, with /etc/muttnewsrc being
folder-hook . "push Bxy"
so mutt starts read-only non-changing mailboxes, doing "B" which
fetches the news, and then quits non-changing.
So this works, the same when
/usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc
is executed from the command line as user. The problem is, it doesn't
work when executed from a user's crontab. I edit it with
crontab -e
and add
*/2 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt -R -F /etc/muttnewsrc > /dev/null 2>&1
(one line). The " > /dev/null 2>&1" part is to prevent cron from
sending mail on job execution.
What am I missing here?
-Andre
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