Re: tlug: fetchmail limit/warning flags

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Subba Rao wrote:

>    
>    I am using fetchmail as root, to collect the mail for all users on my
>    system. The cronjob entry is as follows:
>    
>    fetchmail -a -K -s -l 50000 -w 1800 -t 90
>    
>    The limit and warning flags, do not notify the root or the individual users
>    of an oversized mail still sitting on the ISP's POP server.
>    

Why not run in the daemon mode instead of invoking as a cronjob? 
My understanding is that fetchmail "mails" warnings only if invoked in
the daemon mode. With the above commandline, the progress
message on *stdout* may indicate the oversized messages and  crond (and 
not fetcmail) should have mailed this output to the cronjob owner unless
redirected elsewhere.

Selva



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