Silencing fetchmail

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Tue Jan 21 12:30:13 EST 2003


I got it fixed.  It was this god damn biff thing.  It still is saying "you
have new mail in /var/spool/mail/alex_snow but that's not bad.  Biff was
dispalying the whole message.

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A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!"
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Does Fetchmail not act silent even though you have it running as a cron
> job? One thing to try would be adding > /dev/NULL 2>&1 to make sure it is
> silent. This does have the side effect of not warning about connection
> problems. However, if you leave the configuration as is for the forseeable
> future, you shouldn't have any problems.
>
> May you code in the power of the source,
> may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
>
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I finally got my mail working.  One more question... How do I stop
> > fetchmail from telling me about mail? I mean how do I completely silence
> > it? I tried adding the --silent option when I started it but it didn't
> > work.  Is there something I can add to my .fetchmailrc?
> >
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