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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:53:35 -0600
From:      Zach Thompson <cublai@lastamericanempire.com>
To:        lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fetchmail sleeping.
Message-ID:  <20020416185335.A30571@lastamericanempire.com>
In-Reply-To: <1018999825.393.37.camel@turtle.lewiz.org>; from purple@lewiz.info on Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:30:24AM %2B0200
References:  <1018999825.393.37.camel@turtle.lewiz.org>

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* lewiz <purple@lewiz.info> [020416 17:38]:
> Hey,
> 
>   Anybody know why, when fetchmail is run with ``set daemon 480'' in my
> fetchmail.conf file it does not fetch mail but instead at 480 second
> intervals logs ``sleeping'' in the log file.  Everything works fine if I
> comment this line out and just run fetchmail in non-daemon mode.
>   Thanks.
> 

When there are no messages that is all that is logged I believe before
the process sleeps until the next poll. If I log I get the same thing
until there is a message. Have you tried sending a message to one of
your polled accounts and waking the daemon? Should log the retrieval
then.

Zach Thompson

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