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? ... -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
