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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?"
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:03:08
Message-Id: BFACEEA8-E2D8-4DCD-83D7-DDF71BFEE2FF@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?" by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 20 Sep 2009, at 16:34, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > ...
3 > When using the line:
4 >
5 > @ 5 fetchmail -a
6 >
7 > nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded
8 > with
9 >
10 > fetchmail -a
11 >
12 > from the commandline.
13
14 Here my crontab says:
15
16 0-59/4 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
17
18 I suggest trying the full path, but you may also be able to redirect
19 to somewhere other than /dev/null & perhaps see something useful?
20
21 Stroller.

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