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sendmail message that is stuck

Marty Metras — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:58:03 GMT

Hi,
I have a sendmail message that is being sent to me everyday at the same time. Should be once per week. The Script runs once a week and only email me once. Every day I get the same message. My server sends the email and it goes directly to internet it dose not get reprocess anywhere as far as I can tell. I control this user account so I don't think some one is playing games with me.
So I think this email is stuck some where and getting requeued from some where. I can't find it.

Any ideas?
Marty

Re: sendmail message that is stuck

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:01:56 GMT

Hi Marty,

Do you have anything sitting in your mailqueue "mailq'?. I would also check your /var/adm/syslog/mail.log to see if your script is not generating mails everyday. You should see entries there if the mails are generating from your system itself. If you are using a mailhost, then you should see entries with 'relay=yourmail' in mail.log. If that is the case, you would need to check your mailhost.

-Sri

Re: sendmail message that is stuck

Geoff Wild — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:04:22 GMT

Is it the same message?

Modify your script to time stamp in the body of the email..

Did you check the headers?

Rgds..Geoff

Re: sendmail message that is stuck

Marty Metras — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:20:18 GMT

Thanks.
After going throught the routine you pointed out, I found it.
THis cron job should only run on Sunday. Other days it just process with out doing any thing because the database is open.
Therefore, the cron job should been set to run at "44 12 * * 0" I over looked the fact that I was testing it 2 weeks ago and left it set to run "44 12 * * *". Yup! 7 days a week. I did it to myself.

Thanks for helping me to think.
Marty