The man page for fetchmail 5.5.0 says:
-v, --verbose
Verbose mode. All control messages passed between
fetchmail and the mailserver are echoed to stderr.
Overrides --silent. Doubling this option (-v -v)
causes extra diagnostic information to be printed.
However, when I run:
$ fetchmail -v -f myconfig > fetch.out
where myconfig says:
poll myhost.com with proto POP3:
user 'xxx' there is yyy here;
fetchall;
no keep;
most of the diagnostic output is written to stdout rather than stderr.
Perhaps this should also be stated in the man page.
In addition, as each message is downloaded, a lonely "#" character is
printed on stderr, so it does not get redirected in the above example. It
would be nice if this character could be enabled/disabled separately. (Of
course I could redirect stderr to /dev/null but then I wouldn't see other
important messages on the screen.) Just a thought.
Dan
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