Why is smartd printing "internal error in MailWarning(): cfg.mailwarn->emailfreq=0" ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When smartd detects an event that should be logged then

smartd: internal error in MailWarning(): cfg.mailwarn->emailfreq=0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • package smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6 and older versions of this package

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