Disabling Popfetcher

[neumannu47]

I installed Popfetcher a year ago, and it works well, but I'm not using it. Every 15 minutes or so, it sends an email to the default account. At last count, I had to delete about 4000 emails. How can I stop it from sending emails, how can I delete those emails automatically, or how can I disable the plugin? I don't really want to unistall it if I don't have to because I had some problems doing the original installation.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Uhm, actually the popfetcher plugin does not SEND emails! IT only receives emails on the configured mail address.

Which kind of emails are you receiving? What are their content? This more sounds like something else is responsible for the mails?

Regards,
Garvin

[neumannu47]

My bad. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Upon further investigation, and I do NOT know what I'm talking about here, apparently there is a Cron job that moves the incoming emails to the blog. In any case, every time the Cron job (wget?) runs, it sends an email to the master email account associated with the domain name. I just set it to 0 minutes, which will hopefully solve the problem.

Why does the Cron job have to send an email? What is the solution for this problem? Send the email to a null account?

Getting back on topic, the reason I never used the post to blog by email function is that I could never get the emails to post correctly. They always had to be edited because of strange line breaks. I tried in plain text and in HTML. I have not played with it in a year. Has there been any change in this situation since April of last year? It doesn't make any sense to post by email just to have to log in and edit.

[neumannu47]

My bad. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Upon further investigation, and I do NOT know what I'm talking about here, apparently there is a Cron job that moves the incoming emails to the blog. In any case, every time the Cron job (wget?) runs, it sends an email to the master email account associated with the domain name. I just set it to 0 minutes, which will hopefully solve the problem.

Why does the Cron job have to send an email? What is the solution for this problem? Send the email to a null account?

Getting back on topic, the reason I never used the post to blog by email function is that I could never get the emails to post correctly. They always had to be edited because of strange line breaks. I tried in plain text and in HTML. I have not played with it in a year. Has there been any change in this situation since April of last year? It doesn't make any sense to post by email just to have to log in and edit.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Cronjobs sending emails is a usual Linux behaviour. Since they run automatted, you would never know what your automatted jobs return.

You could silence any cronjobs by appending "1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null" to the call command.

Usually plain text emails should not have any linebreak issues, if you instruct your mail client to not hard-wrap emails at X characters. This is the RFC-suggested behaviour, because hard linewrapping in mails does not adjust well to the clients where an email is viewed. It'S the job of the display client to show mails wrapped to the resolution of the client's screen; not the sender's screen.

Best regards,
Garvin

[neumannu47]

Thanks, Garvin. Is there any chance that the plugin (or the application) will be able to handle incoming HTML email posts? That would be awesome.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

I think there is a config option for handling HTML? Usually it just passes through any input you give it.

Regards
Garvin