Re: ghost email after reboot ???
Hi,
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 05:33:29PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Oddly enough, every time I reboot, root receives eight (8) emails from
> nearly one year ago -- long, long ago deleted. Yes, the exact same
> mail every time I reboot. Since this is a server, I pickup that mail
> remotely and always delete it immediately. exim is set to forward
> root's email to my account. This recurring email is more than a year
> old and no subsequently received and deleted emails appear like this.
>
> I've checked /root/mail/ -- for some reason, root doesn't use mbox --
> nothing there now. Also, it is not in my ~/mbox.
>
> I've checked /var/mail -- not even a root entry. /var/mail/mds is
> empty.
Not that I know the answer but let me try ...
Did you check /var/spool/exim/input/ contents?
What happens if you run "exim -qff" from root on that machine.
What kind of mail is it? Some message installation program created?
...
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