At the very top of my .mailfilter filter file I have this:

foo = `date` log "------------------- $foo -------------------\n"

...which obviously serves to timestamp every log entry in an easy to read format.

I am always tweaking my .mailfilter file; doesn't everyone? <g> At any rate, at a certain point in time I began seeing a lot of seemingly "empty" log file entries. They look like this:

------------------- Sun May 20 15:35:53 EDT 2007 -------------------

------------------- Sun May 20 15:35:53 EDT 2007 -------------------

------------------- Sun May 20 15:38:55 EDT 2007 -------------------

------------------- Sun May 20 15:38:56 EDT 2007 -------------------

------------------- Sun May 20 15:38:56 EDT 2007 -------------------

------------------- Sun May 20 15:41:57 EDT 2007 -------------------

The three minute increment is, I believe, the setting of fetchmail's daemon mode:

set daemon 180

I have recently added these lines to .mailfilter file:

if (/^Delivered-To:.*zooey/) { if (/^Subject:\s(.*)/) { SUBJ = $MATCH1 xfilter "reformail -I'Subject: Z] "$SUBJ"'" } }

The intent was to dectect those messages sent to user 'zooey' and prefix a 'Z]' to their subject lines. It seems to work just fine. These lines seem to be the culprit producing the "empty" log entries. Could that be true, and is there a way to quell this behavior?

Best regards,