Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:36:13 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Phantom mail in local queue Message-ID: <36FFD62D.8E9B5D39@eboa.com> References: <36FC34A6.666D756A@eboa.com> <19990327053803.7854.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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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 <g>. 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 <g> 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
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