[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#530749: fetchmail: Please add option to make "no mail" not an error condition
Reuben Thomas
rrt at sc3d.org
Wed May 27 13:12:07 UTC 2009
Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.9~rc2-4
Severity: wishlist
When using fetchmail in a cron job to fetch mail regularly (because
daemon mode is still not reliable, and yes, I've reported it and tried
and failed to help fix it), it's annoying that "no mail", which is a
perfectly normal condition, returns an error code, as it means I have to
write a wrapper script (or a very long cron job line!) to differentiate
between that and a "real" error.
Hence, an option to return exit code 0 in the case where there is no new
mail would be most handy.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny1 SSL shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20080809 Common CA certificates
Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn fetchmailconf <none> (no description available)
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag
ii resolvconf 1.42 name server information handler
-- no debconf information
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