From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 26 22:40:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C10E91510C for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:40:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 7855 invoked by uid 1001); 27 Mar 1999 05:38:03 -0000 Message-ID: <19990327053803.7854.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 15:38:03 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Roelof Osinga Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Phantom mail in local queue References: <36FC34A6.666D756A@eboa.com> In-reply-to: <36FC34A6.666D756A@eboa.com> of Sat, 27 Mar 1999 02:30:14 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Root keeps getting this fanmail from the system: > > Mail in local queue: > Mail Queue (1 request) > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > CAA18526* (no control file) > > Yet /var/spool/mqueue is empty and sendmail has no outstanding > requests. So what queue might this be? > > Tried to find files by that name: > > root:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf# find / -name "*CAA18526*" -print > root:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf# > > but to no avail. 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. > What and where are these mails it complains about. How can I get > prevent this from occurring all the time? 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. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message