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g_gailer@yahoo.com.au and helped write:

> Greetings
> I have set up fetchmail to retrieve my emails from an external server and
> deliver them to my small home network. I have a broadband connection and
> have set fetchmail up in an hourly cron job. It works wonderfully well.
> However, fetchmail sends an email to my internal user each time it is run. I
> cannot find any reference to this in the manual pages and my internal
> mailbox is rapidly filling up! Does anyone know of a way to turn this off? I
> would be quite satisfied with it only putting an entry in the syslog (which
> it is doing) and not sending the emails. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Greg Gailer
> g_gailer@yahoo.com.au
>
>

Cron sends you the email. If you use procmail to process mail
you can kill file the message with

:0:
* ^From:.*cron\ daemon.*
/dev/null

otherwise setup cron not to send the email or have your MUA
delete the message upon receipt.

You can also use
fetchmail -d 3600
to poll your mail provider every 60 minutes.


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