Re: Upgrade to fetchmail 6.5.6

Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-users <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:16:34 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.fetchmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 18.10.25 um 22:51 schrieb [email protected]:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:01:08 -0500
> axreios <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 07:36:52PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>> after upgrading to 6.5.6 I've noticed that syslog messages include
>>> the timestamp. Since I'm starting fetchmail thru systemd, the
>>> timestamp is already included in journal. Is it possible to remove
>>> timestamp from syslog message ?
>>>
>>> Here is my uname -a :
>>>
>>> Linux agmob3 6.16.12-100.fc41.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Oct
>>> 12 18:44:08 UTC 2025 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any answer.
>>> Ciao
>>> Angelo
>>>
>> Are you getting the timestamp listed twice?  I am not seeing that,
>> though I am not using systemd.  I do start fetchmail from the command
>> line with the --syslog option.  FWIW.
>> 	ax
>>
>>
> Hi,
> thanks for your answer.
> here is an example of messages from my journalctl
>
> Oct 18 15:03:14 fetchmail[1601465]: Oct 18 15:03:14 fetchmail: 77 messages (77 seen) for ......
> Oct 18 15:03:14 fetchmail[1601465]: Oct 18 15:03:14 fetchmail: 43 messages (43 seen) for ......
> Oct 18 15:03:15 fetchmail[1601825]: Oct 18 15:03:15 fetchmail: No mail for ......
> Oct 18 15:03:15 fetchmail[1601825]: Oct 18 15:03:15 fetchmail: No mail for ......
>
> with previous fetchmail version (6.4) this was not happening.


Please heed <https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>

and please include information on how your systemd file looks like.