The mail command you are using is not standardized, but on most UNIX and UNIX-like systems, the mail utility takes one or more operands (after the options have been processed) with each operand specifying the e-mail address of someone who should receive that message. What operating system are you using?

If you want to send mail just to yourself while testing (instead of to the list of recipients specified in /home/p611568/d2e/xeenos_scripts/emailparm) and to enable us to see where my code is getting stuck in an infinite loop, change the second line of your version of my script from:

Code:

#RECIPIENTS=bcarosi

to:

Code:

set -xv

and then change the line:

Code:

 done < /home/p611568/d2e/xeenos_scripts/emailparm

to the two lines:

Code:

 done < /home/p611568/d2e/xeenos_scripts/emailparm
 RECIPIENTS=bcarosi

Move a couple of *.rpt files from /home/p611568/d2e/error_directory back to /home/p611568/d2e/logs so there will be files to process before you run this script again. (I assume that these two directories are on the same filesystem so the timestamps won't change when you move them.)

Then, run the script again and show us the trace log it prints while running (in CODE tags, please) so we can verify that the recipient list is being created correctly and see where my code is going into an infinite loop.

Note that my script moved the code creating the entire mail message inside the then clause of the if statement that sends the email. the code you showed us earlier initializes the mail file contents with three lines of data before entering the for loop and then adds two more lines to that file every time a failed file is found. This is why subsequent mail messages contain more and more files at the end of the message.