From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MpORI-0004lY-Kl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:35:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6699E08D9; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 641A2E08D9 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2009 15:34:57 -0000 Received: from p548522D0.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.34.208] by mail.gmx.net (mp061) with SMTP; 20 Sep 2009 17:34:57 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18OB/AitNwOx4Zxr0sClcSVEQcRO8C2dJmGpuptig XEiwE/mFqsgYaF Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:34:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:34:51 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?" Message-ID: <20090920153451.GB5807@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.66 X-Archives-Salt: 9b9d661a-aa53-41cf-b4a9-285018ced8f2 X-Archives-Hash: 3842c2ad198f115ce9cc8caadb656561 Hi, I have used for testing the following combo: Configured fetchmail for my user account and configured procmail to deliver the mail. I called fetchmail by hand: It works. In my fetchmailrc there is the line mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" as said: When started by hand everything is fine. Also fcron is installed and my personal fcrontab contains the line: @ 5 mrxvt -fn 10x20 -display :0.0 -g 30x5+0+0 -e dialog --yesno "TEST" 10 30 which also works: Every five minutes a dialog box pops up. BUT! When using the line: @ 5 fetchmail -a nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded with fetchmail -a from the commandline. May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing wrong here? Thank you very much for any help in advance! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.