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gw1500se

15th March 2011 17:18

fetchmailrc question

I am getting inundated with messages from fetchmail. Since I am not using syslog, I guess it is sending it via email. I can only find information on how to turn off syslog. How do I turn off (or modify to get only errors) all these warning emails? TIA.

falko

16th March 2011 13:39

What do these warnings look like?

gw1500se

16th March 2011 14:17

One for each mailbox each time fetchmail runs:

fetchmail: Warning: "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server" found, using RETR command instead of TOP.
fetchmail: No mail for mailbox at mail.mydomain.net

falko

17th March 2011 18:23

Take a look at

Code:

man fetchmail

You can suppress warnings with the -s or --silent switch.

gw1500se

17th March 2011 23:23

Thanks but that didn't change anything. I still get the same warnings every 5 minutes.

falko

18th March 2011 15:01

Where did you add the switch? In the fetchmailrc file (don't know if that works), or in the fetchmail startup command in the fetchmail init script (probably /etc/init.d/fetchmail)?

gw1500se

18th March 2011 15:30

I run fetchmail from cron.

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail --silent

falko

19th March 2011 18:54

Can you post the fetchmailrc file (please x out the passwords!)?

gw1500se

19th March 2011 21:57

Thanks for your time. Here it is:

Code:

set postmaster "mailman"

set bouncemail

set no spambounce

set properties ""

poll mailhost.somedomain.com

        proto pop3

        user "cufsalumni"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni

        user "cufsalumni-request"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni-request

        user "cufsalumni-join"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni-join

        user "cufsalumni-leave"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni-leave

        user "cufsalumni-confirm"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni-confirm

        user "cufsalumni-owner"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni-owner

        user "mailman-owner"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is mailman-owner

falko

20th March 2011 21:20

Not sure if this works, but maybe you can add "silent" to each mailbox, e.g.:

Code:

poll mailhost.somedomain.com

        proto pop3

        user "cufsalumni"

        pass "xxxxxxxxx"

        is cufsalumni silent

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