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Title: Need Explain about Email from Cron Daemon
Post by: barame on August 08, 2007, 03:02:31 AM
Dear All.
Every time SME fetchmail from my hosting the reporting email was send from Cron Deamon with the subject "Cron <root@web> /etc/startmail"
But the mail body have only the # and ***** with difference long.
What does it mean and can it show the email subject that what it fetch from host.

Sorry if this question is non-sense.
Best regards,
Barame
Title: Re: Need Explain about Email from Cron Daemon
Post by: barame on August 16, 2007, 11:08:45 AM
No body know it right?

Barame
Title: Same problem here!
Post by: Per on August 17, 2007, 01:57:46 PM
Jupp, I got the same problem since yesterday.
Sender: Cron Daemon
Subject: Cron <root@server14> /etc/startmail
Content: #***********.***
or something similar (varies a bit).


Maybe it is related to the upgrade from 7.1.3 to 7.2 or maybe the fact that I installed Certificate-contrib yesterday?
I have a nagging feeling that I had this sometime in the past, but I can't remember....
Title: Re: Same problem here!
Post by: raem on August 18, 2007, 05:40:15 AM
barame & per

Search the forums eg on /etc/startmail or even #***********.***

I'll let you read the results

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?action=search2

Maybe this
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=9736.0
Title: More info
Post by: Per on August 18, 2007, 07:37:36 AM
Thanks Ray, but I actually did those searches before i posted, but I didn't think the answers looked like solutions.
§1 Anyway, I did the command
Code: [Select]
/etc/startmailand it turned back nothing (I'm unsure if that's good or bad).

§2 I looked over my fetchmail (contrib) account settings.

§3 I did the command
Code: [Select]
/sbin/e-smith/config show fetchmailand it turned back
Code: [Select]
fetchmail=service
    FreqOffice=every15min
    FreqOutside=every15min
    FreqWeekend=every15min
    Method=standard
    SecondaryMailAccount=popaccount
    SecondaryMailPassword=poppassword
    SecondaryMailServer=mail.myisp.xxx
    status=disabled
Note that status=disabled even though Fetchmail are enabled in server-manager (and I did a disable+enable, and then checked again with same result).
But then I realized that this is maybe only the config, not the current status?

§4 Trying Windows solution 1: Reboot.

Lets wait and see if any of these actions helped....  :?

-No, another #***-mail was sent an hour later.
I'm all out, ideas anyone please?

Title: Re: More info
Post by: raem on August 18, 2007, 03:49:40 PM
per, barame

Although this bug is about ezmlm, it has reference to fetchmail issues like yours.
Maybe ?
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2745
See comment #2
Title: Re: Need Explain about Email from Cron Daemon
Post by: cactus on August 18, 2007, 05:43:16 PM
-No, another #***-mail was sent an hour later.
I'm all out, ideas anyone please?
Are you using the smeserver-fetchmail contrib? If so try setting the debug option for all users to disabled in the server-manager. I believe it had something to do with that. I believe this was a FAQ item once, but was unable to find it.

Please let me know if this is the solution, maybe we can add it to the FAQ again.
Title: Re: Need Explain about Email from Cron Daemon
Post by: Per on August 18, 2007, 08:31:26 PM
Yes I do use the fetchmail contrib, and yes I did enable logging for one account a couple of days ago.
So that could very well be the problem. I have disabled that logging now. :oops:

I come back tomorrow with results (saturday night 8,30 pm here).  :pint:
PS I also searched faq and wiki previosly, with no result. DS
Title: Re: More info
Post by: micropitt on August 19, 2007, 06:02:34 AM
Thanks Ray, but I actually did those searches before i posted, but I didn't think the answers looked like solutions.
§1 Anyway, I did the command
Code: [Select]
/etc/startmailand it turned back nothing (I'm unsure if that's good or bad).

If you do the command
Code: [Select]
/etc/startmailit will not give you any feedback on the command prompt. It just starts the fetchmail process and then either quits because fetchmail is done or it will time out if fetchmail doesn't work correct. Look in /var/log/messages for more......

 
Title: Problem (probably) solved!
Post by: Per on August 19, 2007, 12:03:30 PM
Since I disabled logging in contrib smeserver-fetchmail I haven't received any more #***-mail from Cron Daemon.
So for now it looks like solved  :-)

I will add a note about it in the wiki page of smeserver-fetchmail.
Thanks a lot guys for your time and effort!
/Per