Topic: Cron <root@xxxxx> /etc/startmail

[BK]

Hi everyone,

Everytime when my server successfully retrieve a mail from my POP account it will sent a mail to my admin account and in the body of the email there is only a "." thats all.

Does anyone know why? and how can i get ride of this. Coz if i receieve 100 mails then my admin mail box will be flooded.

Thanks...

[guestFF]

Look throufh the past posting. There is a contributed rpm to get rid of the 'dotted fetchmail issue'

HFW

[BK]

Thanks pal.

I will try to look for it but if you got info where is it pls let me know.

[guestFF]

From the technical FAQ at http://www.e-smith.org:

Why am I receiving emails with Subject: /etc/startmail, with only dots in the body of the message?
These harmless messages are a progress indicator that fetchmail is fetching messages.

In order to stop the cron messages being sent to admin, you'll need to set the Verbosity property of fetchmail to --silent. You can do this by entering the following commands: (while logged into the e-smith server as root)

  /sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop fetchmail Verbosity "--silent"
  /sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

Sorry for my mistake, it wa a long time ago when I 'fixed' this, so it's not a contributed rpm but a known issue reported in the T-Faq.

Regards,

RequestedDeletion

[BK]

Thanks alot.... I was searching for it just now.