Puzzling dead.letter file.

[JD Austin]

mail client creates dead.letter file:
http://www.linuxask.com/questions/what-is-the-file-dead-letter-in-my-home-folder

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:03 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

>
> Help!
>
> Today, I discovered the following file in my system's top '/' directory:
>
> -rw-------   1 root  3428016 Mar 06 04:06 dead.letter
>
> This file contains 71,756 lines and 3,428,016 chars with dated entries
> every day between June 10, 2010 and March 6, 2012.  Some days have only
> one date entry. Some have 2, 3, or 4 date entries with the same date.
>
> It seems that mostly the same information is duplicated many, many times,
> including two long lists of photo files in two directories repeated many
> times.
>
> View an excerpted copy of the first 300 and last 300 lines of this file
> here:
>
> - - - http://www.upquick.com/temp/dead.txt - - -
>
> - Can anyone please tell me why this file was created?
>
> - Is there some action that I need to take as a result of information
> that is revealed in this file?
>
> - Is there any reason to save this file?  Or can it be safely deleted?
>
> Thanks friends,
>
> Joe
>
>
>
>
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