Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Tatge
* 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 messag

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:20:55 -0400, Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 wrote: > But I do have a question. I started fetchmail daemon: > > $ fetchmail > fetchmail: background fetchmail at 19841 awakened. > > but see that I already have /etc/default/fetchmail (I'm running > debian), which means fetch

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
> 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 fo

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1
> Running featchmail as a daemon works well for me. I have the account > info recorded in my .fetchmailrc file, and then when I first boot my > machine I just run "fetchmail -d300" and enter the password for my email > account before I start up Mutt. Nathan, this seems to be the best solution for

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 07:29:46AM -0400, Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 wrote: > > > > > > p...@rick > > Thanks, Patrick, but the reason for my writing is that this approach > (using the command "fetchmail > /dev/null 2

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1
> > > p...@rick Thanks, Patrick, but the reason for my writing is that this approach (using the command "fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1" did not work. It seems that if I run the command from a command prompt, it wor

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-08 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 08.05.10,17:24, Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 wrote: > I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but I've not found it. 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 t

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-08 Thread Nathan Stratton Treadway
On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 17:24:34 -0400, Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 wrote: > Would running fetchmail as daemon have any effect? Running featchmail as a daemon works well for me. I have the account info recorded in my .fetchmailrc file, and then when I first boot my machine I just run "fetchmail -d300

Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-08 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1 : > I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but I've not found it. 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 messages, and so

filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-08 Thread Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1
I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but I've not found it. 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 messages, and so I'd like to avoid them. Would runn