Re: Adding timestamp to maillog

Dennis Putnam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/10/2020 4:43 PM, James Moe via Fetchmail-users wrote:
> On 9/10/20 10:36 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>
>> Has anyone figured out how to add a timestamp on the fetchmail log
>> messages to the maillog? TIA
>>
>   Not that I ever found.
>   My configuration file has these entries as a workaround:
>
> set logfile "/path/to/fetchmail.log"
> poll example.com interval 1
>   protocol imap username "account_name_of_interest" password "secret"
>   preconnect "echo `date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S` <account_name_of_interest> >>
> /path/to/fetchmail.log
>   ... other stuff ...
>
>   It does result in an entry for every time fetchmail connects to a server to
> check for mail even if no mail is available.
>
Thanks for everyone that replied. I was not aware of  'preconnect'. This
is the solution I prefer.

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