# Logstash Email - Constantly sending
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-email-constantly-sending/210262
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [December 3, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-email-constantly-sending/210262 "2019-12-03T00:23:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@lquin1978](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lquin1978)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-email-constantly-sending/210262/1 "2019-12-03T00:23:10Z")
I am using an email output within logstash to send me a copy of an xml file that has been generated by an NMAP scan. The issue is Logstash is repeatedly sending me a copy of the same file every minute. Is there a way to only send a copy of the file once every 24 hours?
file is as follows:
input{
file{
path =\> "/usr/share/vuln/vuln.xml"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"
exclude =\> "\*.gz"
type =\> "xml"
}
}
filter{
xml{
source =\> "message"
store\_xml =\> false
target =\> "stations"
xpath =\> [
"/stations/station/id/text()", "station\_id",
"/stations/station/name/text()", "station\_name"
]
}
}
output {
email {
to =\> 'info@.com'
from =\> 'alerts@.com'
subject =\> 'Vulnerability Detected'
body =\> "Tags: %{tags}\n\Content:\n%{message}"
domain =\> 'mail..com'
port =\> 25
}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-email-constantly-sending/210262/2 "2019-12-31T00:23:14Z")
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