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Diffstat (limited to 'fetchmail.man')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 0e40521d..b96d2fd6 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -2561,7 +2561,17 @@ One or more messages were successfully retrieved (or, if the \-c option was selected, were found waiting but not retrieved). .IP 1 There was no mail awaiting retrieval. (There may have been old mail still -on the server but not selected for retrieval.) +on the server but not selected for retrieval.) If you do not want "no +mail" to be an error condition (for instance, for cron jobs), use a +POSIX-compliant shell and add + +.nf +|| [ $? -eq 1 ] +.fi + +to the end of the fetchmail command line, note that this leaves 0 +untouched, maps 1 to 0, and maps all other codes to 1. See also item #C8 +in the FAQ. .IP 2 An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- @@ -2582,9 +2592,7 @@ There was a syntax error in the arguments to The run control file had bad permissions. .IP 7 There was an error condition reported by the server. Can also -fire if -\fBfetchmail\fP -timed out while waiting for the server. +fire if \fBfetchmail\fP timed out while waiting for the server. .IP 8 Client-side exclusion error. This means \fBfetchmail\fP |