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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sending mail in the dead.letter file Post 302176508 by era on Tuesday 18th of March 2008 11:54:41 AM
Old 03-18-2008
dead.letter is the result when the message could not even enter the mail queue.

Personally I would simply alert the users to this problem and suggest they review their dead.letter files for messages they really want to send. Chances are there are duplicates and triplicates which they were sending while you were wondering what was up with the mail.

I guess dead.letter is a standard mbox file so the formail manual (if you have that) should be helpful.
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