Topic: Cron Daemon: cron /etc/startmail

[SchulzStefan]

Hello there,

has anybody an explanation for this message?

fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 25877.

The system is running with SME 6.0.1-01.

Thank's for any reply.
Stefan

[duncan]

Try increasing the time between pop collections.

[SchulzStefan]

Hello Duncan,

thank you for your reply. I'll try this and will let you know, if it works.

Stefan

[gmphoto]

In case anyone else ever has this message I may have a clue as to why it sometimes happens...to my server anyway.

I had a barrage of emails from Cron with the same message

fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.
fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 13912.

every 5 minutes. I checked the pop mail account it was checking a lo and behold my ISP pop server was unavailable. As soon as the ISP server came back on line the emails stopped.

Cheers!