fetchmailrc question

I am getting inundated with messages from fetchmail. Since I am not using syslog, I guess it is sending it via email. I can only find information on how to turn off syslog. How do I turn off (or modify to get only errors) all these warning emails? TIA.

 

What do these warnings look like?

 

One for each mailbox each time fetchmail runs:

fetchmail: Warning: "Maillennium POP3/PROXY server" found, using RETR command instead of TOP.
fetchmail: No mail for mailbox at mail.mydomain.net

 

Take a look at

Code:

man fetchmail

You can suppress warnings with the -s or --silent switch.

 

Thanks but that didn't change anything. I still get the same warnings every 5 minutes.

 

Where did you add the switch? In the fetchmailrc file (don't know if that works), or in the fetchmail startup command in the fetchmail init script (probably /etc/init.d/fetchmail)?

 

I run fetchmail from cron.

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail --silent

 

Can you post the fetchmailrc file (please x out the passwords!)?

 

Thanks for your time. Here it is:

Code:

set postmaster "mailman"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll mailhost.somedomain.com
        proto pop3
        user "cufsalumni"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni
        user "cufsalumni-request"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni-request
        user "cufsalumni-join"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni-join
        user "cufsalumni-leave"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni-leave
        user "cufsalumni-confirm"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni-confirm
        user "cufsalumni-owner"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni-owner
        user "mailman-owner"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is mailman-owner

 

Not sure if this works, but maybe you can add "silent" to each mailbox, e.g.:

Code:

poll mailhost.somedomain.com
        proto pop3
        user "cufsalumni"
        pass "xxxxxxxxx"
        is cufsalumni [COLOR="Red"]silent[/COLOR]

 

Thanks but that didn't help. However, I am getting a new message now but I don't think it is related. At the same time I don't know what it means.

fetchmail: warning: multidrop for mail.myisp.com requires envelope option!
fetchmail: warning: Do not ask for support if all mail goes to postmaster!