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 1MpYII-000753-1V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1122E0830; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1966E0830 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA70676DF for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.45 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.45 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.851, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id kkwm-lAKEz1K for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C256C67758 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MpYI2-0006Gr-D6 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:06:06 +0200 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:06:06 +0200 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:06:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: fcron & fetchmail & procmail and the "why not?" Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:05:44 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <871vm1f3wn.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <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=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:87uZ+wtY0963FxHaWFQpQmkasiI= Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2cca387b-ed35-4e4c-8b9e-292ba33eac7a X-Archives-Hash: 96d186f1fa3b96cb5cd0dae948d8cfe6 Ward Poelmans writes: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 17:34, wrote: >> >> When using the line: >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0@ 5 fetchmail -a >> >> nothing happens: The mail remains on the server and can be downloaded >> with >> >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0fetchmail -a >> >> from the commandline. >> >> May be I am a little overhacked today...but what the hack I am doing >> wrong here? > > Are you sure the cron job runs? Check the logs. Or try adding: > */5 * * * * fetchmail -a > in your cron file. Another way to go at it might be to use fetchmails' built in daemon mode (fetchmail -d INTERVAL). And forget about cron.