a mystery

I was having trouble with xymond_alert not sending out all of the emails
that it should, it was only doing maybe a quarter of the messages. I
checked the alerts.cfg file and didn't find anything. Then I set the
--debug flag for xymond_alert and things started working again. I've
removed the --debug flag and things are still working correctly. Any ideas
on what could have been going wrong here?

Thanks,
Larry Barber