[fetchmail]supress errors in log

[Tobias Meyer]

>>>>* Use daemon mode - it's there for a reason!
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>I can understand that the daemon is the correct way to go, I will not
>doubt that, but I can't see the bigger picture. I have three local
>users, collecting email from various POP/IMAP servers. In daemon mode
>I have 3 instances of fetchmail running, waiting to be polled
>depending on the users setings.
>
>Alternatively I three entries in /etc/crontab that run the fetchmail
>tool every 60 seconds, polls the email, and then closes.
>  
>
Consinder following scenario:
One of your ISPs is - for wharever reason - taking longer than 60 
seconds  to deliver an email to you (maybe it's a really big mail :-)
Cron does not know that the last fetch is not finished yet and starts 
another poll.
Actually this will fail, because IIRC fetchmail prevents running two 
instanes for the same user - If you didn't redirect errors to /dev/null 
you would see an error now.
Unfortunately you will not be able to see other errors this way, too.

In daemon mode
a) fetchmail will start the next poll <put-your-number-here> seconds 
after FINISHING the last poll.
b) users have more control if they want to run fetchmail
c) the users will see error messages if something goes wrong (which they 
might be interested in).

Cheers,
Tobias