Re: Upgrade to fetchmail 6.5.6

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:16:34 +0200
Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-users
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

Thanks for answering.

I've read the FAQ and I have to say that my fetchmail works very fine.
I only wonder why it includes timestamps in logs since the last
upgrade.


here is my systemd service (triggered by timer)
=======================================================
[Unit]
Description=Fetch My Mails  
Documentation=man:fetchmail(1)
ConditionPathExists=/tmp/XISON

[Service]
Type=oneshot
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=journal
SyslogIdentifier=fetchmail
SyslogFacility=mail
SyslogLevel=warning

### check for full internet connection
ExecStartPre=/Scripts/ck_full_conn

### fetch mails 
ExecStart=fetchmail -f /home/.MYFMRC
SuccessExitStatus=1

### fetch spam
ExecStart=fetchmail -f /home/.MYFMRC_SPAM
SuccessExitStatus=1

Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=90
=======================================================


On the config files I use the follwing options :
=======================================================
set invisible
set no bouncemail
defaults proto imap timeout 20 bad-header accept
=======================================================

Should I provide any other info ?

Thanks again.
Regards
Angelo


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