I've been trying to configure fetchmail to collect by ODMR from a
crontab. Using the -s option still resulted in a lot of mail arriving
warning me of such terrible events as:
| fetchmail: Turnaround now...
or
| fetchmail: You have no mail.
So far as I can make out these mails arrive because the information is
sent to stderr, and so is not silenced by the -s option.
A work around for now I guess is to use
| /usr/local/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
in the crontab, but I would quite like to get mail advising me of real
errors. The two messages above seem to me be a normal part of an ODMR
session and don't warrant being classed as errors.
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Chris Hastie