From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 20 12:08:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA10627 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:08:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA10621 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:08:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.8/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id MAA05959 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:07:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 12:07:33 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail In-Reply-To: <6c9_9712201833@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 20 Dec 1997, Leif Neland wrote: > At 20 Dec 97 09:51:39 hometeam@techpower.net wrote regarding mail > > h> I have this in my dialy run CAA22289* (no control file) but see > h> no file in the /var/spool/mqueue > h> anyone have any ideas where else this might be picking up from? > h> thanks... > > The "daily" script is sending you a message. This is this message, being > created. The message isn't complete when "daily" looks at it. Only when > "daily" is finished, is the message also finished, and closed. OOHHHHH!! So that's what that darn message means! I've always been curious why I see that darn thing on *every* "daily" report when this box is not handling mail. Of course I *always* see a different number. - burton -