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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RNMAIL(1) General Commands Manual RNMAIL(1)
NAME
Rnmail - a program for replying via mail
SYNOPSIS
Rnmail destination_list
or
Rnmail -h headerfile [oldarticle]
or
Rnmail
DESCRIPTION
Rnmail is a friendly interface for mailing replies to news articles. It will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your letter,
and then mail it off. If you type h and a carriage return at any point, Rnmail will tell you what it wants to know.
The -h form is used when invoked from rn. If your editor can edit multiple files, and you want the article to which you are replying to
show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable MAILPOSTER as "Rnmail -h %h %A". You can also modify the the MAILHEADER
environment variable to change the header file that rn passes to Rnmail.
ENVIRONMENT
DOTDIR If defined, specifies a place other than your home directory where 'dot' files may be stored. This is primarily for accounts which
are shared by more than one person.
Default: $HOME
EDITOR The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.
Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi.
HOME Your home directory.
Default: $LOGDIR
LOGDIR Your home directory if HOME is undefined.
LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined.
Default: value of "whoami".
MAILRECORD
If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished message will be appended.
Default: message not saved
ORGANIZATION
Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the name of your organization.
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
USER Your login name.
Default: $LOGNAME
VISUAL The editor you want to use.
Default: $EDITOR
FILES
$DOTDIR/.letter
~/dead.letter
SEE ALSO
rn(1), Pnews(1), mail(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
Uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail.
LOCAL RNMAIL(1)