From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-01-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com ([65.24.5.135] helo=ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C3wn4-0000Ao-00 for ; Sun, 05 Sep 2004 09:10:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-024-033-004-163.midsouth.rr.com [24.33.4.163]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i85DAdJX004539 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:10:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:10:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Myrow To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: cron question X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:10:42 -0000 Fetchmail has a "-s" option for silent that you may want to use if running it from a cron. According to the man page, it suppresses normal output, but not error messages. As for me, I tend to call fetchmail after I've logged in and leave it running as a daemon. I have a line in my .bash_logout file which kills off any running fetchmail. The only problem is, if I am logged in on more than one console, a logout on any of them kills fetchmail. I haven't bothered to figure this out yet, although I figure it can't be too hard. I've never even attempted to set up a system-wide fetchmail because I don't want my mail being pulled when I'm not near my computer.