On Sun April 17 2005 11:20 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > While I do not fully understand what you are doing there with the > script, I think you should spent some efforts to improve the script or > mechanism to not produce the amount of unwanted cronjob messages. Sound > like big nonsense to run a script every 5 minutes which produces a bunch > of error mail messages, then to forward them to a different account > where to silently delete them. Be friendly to your and your internet > partner (ISP et al.) resources. > My fault. Here, from the GotMail home page: "Gotmail is a perl script to download mail from hotmail.com without user interaction. It is probably best run from a cron job." That's what it is. It uses Posix and SendMail, apparently. It goes out to my hotmail account, gets the messages, forwards them to my regular email address. Here's a sample message that it generates each time it runs: Starting sendmail: [ OK ] Starting sm-client: [ OK ] Gotmail v0.8.2 Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Peter Hawkins Gotmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details. Getting hotmail index page... Processing java check.... Logging in... Following redirect... Going to Inbox Page: http://by21fd.bay21.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/HoTMail Loading main display... $folder_index_url->/cgi-bin/folders? Loading folder list... Processing Folder: "Inbox", Total messages: 0, Unread messages: 0. Loading folder "Inbox" page 1... Processing Folder: "Sent Messages", Total messages: 0, Unread messages: 0. Loading folder "Sent Messages" page 1... Processing Folder: "Drafts", Total messages: 0, Unread messages: 0. Loading folder "Drafts" page 1... Processing Folder: "Junk E-Mail", Total messages: 0, Unread messages: 0. Loading folder "Junk E-Mail" page 1... All done! Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ] Shutting down sm-client: [ OK ] I don't see anything to tell me that these are 'errors' as you suggest. Am I missing something? I check this very often, because this happens to be an account that I use for extensive tech-support in my business, and I'm often in dialogue with someone, and on deadline, and prompt receipt of replies is important to me. If there's a way to 'silently' execute the cronjob without resultant messages, I'm all ears. This is the GotMail home page, if anyone is interested, though it appears to be broken today - none of the links seem to be working: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail I could post the perl script, but it's rather long, so I'll hold off unless someone would like to see it. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
