diff --git a/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/entrypoint.sh b/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/entrypoint.sh
index 8f4bbaf..d1bc6ca 100644
--- a/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/entrypoint.sh
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ echo "PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1" >> /env.sh
 echo "PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1" >> /env.sh
 
 # Make the environment file available to cron
-echo "0 8 * * * . /env.sh && /run_app.sh >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1" > /tmp/crontab_list
+echo "0 8 * * * /run_app.sh >> /var/log/cron.log 2>&1" > /tmp/crontab_list
 crontab /tmp/crontab_list
 
 # Start cron
diff --git a/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/run_app.sh b/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/run_app.sh
index 8a05648..4e54fd4 100644
--- a/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/run_app.sh
+++ b/BankServices/RoutineEmailService/run_app.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,24 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-export EMAIL_HOST="${EMAIL_HOST}"
-export EMAIL_USERNAME="${EMAIL_USERNAME}"
-export EMAIL_PASSWORD="${EMAIL_PASSWORD}"
-export EMAIL_PORT=${EMAIL_PORT}
-export EMAIL_SEND=${EMAIL_SEND}
-export DB_HOST="${DB_HOST}"
-export DB_USER="${DB_USER}"
-export DB_PASSWORD="${DB_PASSWORD}"
-export DB_PORT=${DB_PORT}
-export DB_NAME="${DB_NAME}"
+
+# Source the environment file directly
+. /env.sh
+
+# Re-export all variables to ensure they're available to the Python script
+export EMAIL_HOST
+export EMAIL_USERNAME
+export EMAIL_PASSWORD
+export EMAIL_PORT
+export EMAIL_SEND
+export DB_HOST
+export DB_USER
+export DB_PASSWORD
+export DB_PORT
+export DB_NAME
 
 # Python environment variables
-export PYTHONPATH=/
-export PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
-export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
+export PYTHONPATH
+export PYTHONUNBUFFERED
+export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
 
 env >> /var/log/cron.log
 /usr/local/bin/python /app.py
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