Question on .dead_letter

[Hill_1]

Dear all,
May I know what is the purpose of the hidden file called .dead_letter for?
Is this file created by the system in the /home/root directory automatically?
Thanks in advanced.

[Thierry Poels_1]

Hi,

.dead_letter is create in the user's home directory.

regards,
Thierry.

[Eugen Cocalea]

Hi,

.dead_letter is a file that usually gets dumped on disk when a mailer (I know that 'pine' does it) gets unexpectedly killed (like you can expect to be killed, being a process ;) ). Usually, next time when you enter the mailer, it notices the .dead_letter file and asks you if you want to continue writing the e-mail.

It is harmless and is not created by any other mischievious program but your mailer.

E.

[Justo Exposito]

Hi hill,

As tell you Thierry and Eugen, .deadletter is a file created by the mail subsystem when you got an error while send a message, and this file is created in the home directory of the user that send the mail. In this case the user is root, then the directory is his home directory /home/root.

Regards,
Justo.

[Printaporn_1]

dead.letter is copy of mail that cannot be deliver with a specify time configured by mail server and it consider error.
then mail server will copy the mail message to sender home directory.

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

dead_letter is just that, a "letter" which is dead i.e it got shot down and was never sent to its destination ;-)

You can edit the letter and see its contents to figure out who/where/when it was sent.
IF you need mails to be sent out of the system, test it by sending a mail through
sendmail -vt

matter
.

and see how it works.

HTH
raj

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Hill,

Take a look at the thread below for more info on $HOME/.dead.letter,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90680/B2355-90680_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90680/00/01/177-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90680/00/01/177-toc.html&searchterms=dead.letter&queryid=20011127-055945

Hope this helps.

Regds