On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 19:17:07 +1100, Erik wrote in message
<20191123081707.GA3481@ratatosk>:

> On 19.11.19 05:12, hal wrote:
> > My mail server is doing the exact same thing when running fetchmail
> > for several accounts. Every few minutes cron rolls through 4 or 5
> > accounts, runs fetchmail, and terminates leaving all those
> > `elogind` messages in syslog.
>
> But there's no earthly need for cron, if you run fetchmail as a
> daemon. Mine polls the hosts nominated in ~/.fetchmailrc each 600
> seconds, delivering to port 25. Postfix then invokes procmail for
> message delivery sorting. (Probably don't need postfix, but it's a
> habit of over 30 years to have an MTA.)

..simply use "mda '/usr/bin/procmail' "
as the last line in your .fetchmailrc.


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