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Title: Cron <root@server> /etc/startmail (what does it mean?)
Post by: Tom Peck on March 01, 2001, 02:32:44 AM

Hello All

I am occasionally recieving the following e-mail from my e-smith server.  The number of dots on the last line is usually different though.  I assume this is because I have it checking a pop mail account, and forwarding all e-mail's which havn't a mail box to root. (it only appears to email when this happens).  What do the varaious number of dots mean? How can I turn this off?

Thanks.  Email is as follows:

Subject: Cron /etc/startmail
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:
X-Cron-Env:


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Title: Re: Cron <root@server> /etc/startmail (what does it me
Post by: rk on March 01, 2001, 09:42:54 PM

I just posted this same problem in a fetchmail response above.  It looks like output from when fetchmail is waiting to connect to a server, but I don't know how to get rid of it.

Title: Re: Cron <root@server> /etc/startmail (what does it me
Post by: Charlie Brady on March 01, 2001, 10:21:27 PM

rk wrote:
>
> I just posted this same problem in a fetchmail response
> above.  It looks like output from when fetchmail is waiting
> to connect to a server,

No, it's one "." for every email message retrieved.

> but I don't know how to get rid of it.

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't happen with version 4.1.

If you have version 4.1 and want the reassuring dotty email, you can have it by doing:

/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop fetchmail Verbosity \
   --verbose
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

regards

Charlie

Title: Re: Cron <root@server> /etc/startmail (what does it me
Post by: Tom Peck on March 01, 2001, 11:30:58 PM

I am running 4.1, and it happens by default.  Thanks for the info though.  I was thinking it was one dot per e-mail, but i wasn't sure..  you would think they would make the e-mails more obvious?  

Any idea how to disable it?

Title: Re: Cron <root@server> /etc/startmail (what does it me
Post by: rk on March 02, 2001, 12:13:31 AM

See the thread labeled 'multiple pop account collection'.  There is a fix in there.

Title: Re: Cron <root@server> /etc/startmail (what does it me
Post by: Tom Peck on March 02, 2001, 12:31:30 AM

rk wrote:
>
> See the thread labeled 'multiple pop account collection'.
> There is a fix in there.

Thanks rk :-)