Batch file: Blat sending 2 emails not 1

Question

Hi,

first time I've used blat and it appears to work fine however its sending two emails for every email I intend to send. Script excerpt is below:

::If we have a problem we email from here
CALL :checkForFailures

:checkForFailures
IF EXIST %ERROR_FILE% CALL :email & EXIT /B 1
::pause
GOTO :eof

:email
IF %TOLOG%==Y (
BLAT -f [email protected] -to [email protected] -server myserver -subject "subject text" -body "Body text" -attacht 
::%PROBLEM_LIST% >> %LOGFILE%
) 

GOTO :eof

I've tried running this with and without output to the logfile. runs fine from the cmd prompt but just issues within this script.

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Maybe you should stop your batch file after your call to :checkForFailures:

::If we have a problem we email from here 
CALL :checkForFailures 
goto :eof

:checkForFailures
...

Otherwise you call it once, and execution continues directly after the call. In which case it runs the :checkForFailures subroutine again and sends out a second mail.

Answer 2

how is the entire thing getting triggered? is it a file modify/create flag that's doing it? sometimes those kinds of triggers can be double counted because of the way the OS handles the modified/create triggers.