tlug: Fetchmail question...

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "SMS" == Scott M Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    SMS> ... ok, here's a question.. and could be a potential DOS
    SMS> attack if there's no solution:

    SMS> I got a message from someone @example.com or something like
    SMS> that

--nobounce.  Not clear that this will do exactly what you want
(depends on definition of "postmaster", I think this defaults to
"invoking user", see the --postmaster option).  But it looks right.

    SMS> OK, in my .fetchmailrc I have:

    SMS> set syslog

    SMS> Now, when I run 'fetchmail -d0 -v', it logs everything that
    SMS> it does to the syslog.  But, when I run fetchmail as
    SMS> 'fetchmail -d600' it doesn't log anything... do I just need
    SMS> to specify the -v to make it log the details or is there
    SMS> something else?

Possibly you're looking in the wrong logs or your sysklogd.conf is
dropping some message classes on the floor.

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