Re: how to log date/time in daemon mode?

Hi Gene,

> I was subjected to a phishing attack yesterday and again today, and it 
> would have been a lot easier to correlate the messages if fetchmail was 
> logging the time, preferably the date/time at the end of fetching of 
> fetching each mail. Something it is not now, and never has done.  And I 
> just reread the man pages without finding a clue.
> 
> How do I enable this so a date/time exists in the fetchmail.log?

I'm using the following two commands to log the start and end of
request cyle:

preconnect  "echo 'fetchmail: awakened at '`date +'%a, %d %b %G %H:%M:%S
(%Z)'`"

postconnect "echo 'fetchmail: sleeping at '`date +'%a, %d %b %G %H:%M:%S
(%Z)'` for xxx seconds

Further details can be found here:

http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-man.html

Regards
Juergen
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