From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 11:34:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004F814E66 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:34:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05956; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:34:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14917; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:33:36 +0200 Message-ID: <36FFD62D.8E9B5D39@eboa.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:36:13 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Phantom mail in local queue References: <36FC34A6.666D756A@eboa.com> <19990327053803.7854.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Black wrote: > > You don't say when you get this mail, but I'm guessing it's from > the daily cron jobs -- if so, the mail item in the queue is the > actual item of mail that you're reading. It's no longer in the > queue when you go looking for it, because the cron job has now > finished and you have the mail in your inbox. So obvious with hindsight. > Unless I've misunderstood, you don't really get them "all the > time" but just once a day. There's nothing wrong and you can't > "fix" it unless you ditch sendmail in favour of another MTA. > But this would have to be the most feeble reason to change MTAs. Time flies when you're having fun, making it look more often . So I guess the cron job first creates half a mail, then goes checking to see if it can find half completed mails and finally reports that it does indeed, then closes the mail thereby taking care of the problem it reported? Not what I expected Tx. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message