Offlineimap doesn't get mails when running from cron

[Niels Kobschaetzki]

On 23/07, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I googled a lot but I just cannot get offlineimap to run from a cronjob.
>Looking into the logs and exits without an error which doesn't mean anything to me. And of course it doesn't get any mails.
>
>*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/offlineimap -q -f INBOX -u TTYUI > /home/user/mycommand.log
>*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/offlineimap -u quiet > /home/user/mycommand.log
>
>I want to write into the mycommand.log right now just for
>debugging-reasons but the file stays empty
>
>The output in syslog shows the following:
>
>Jul 23 06:08:01 venus CRON[19935]: (nik) CMD (/usr/bin/offlineimap -q -f
>INBOX -u TTYUI >/home/nik/mycommand.log)
>Jul 23 06:08:02 venus CRON[19934]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed,
>discarding output)
>
>Of course I tried basic and quiet as UIs as well.
>Any ideas?

It works now. 
1) It didn't want to work with gnome-keyring and the fixes I found in
the net, didn't work out for me
2) "offlineimap" works from a cronjob while "offlineimap -f INBOX" or
"offlineimap -q -f INBOX" doesn't work. Logging into the account is no
problem apparently but offlineimap doesn't get any mails.

Niels