Puzzling dead.letter file.

[Joseph Sinclair]

Scan through it and see if anything in there matters; then you can delete it.

It may have stopped because you fixed whatever prevented delivery, or because an update made the cron jobs stop dumping output to stdout and stderr.
Try getting a root shell and running mail to see if there's a ton of unread mail for root.

On 07/18/2012 04:07 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> 
> So, is there any action I need to take?
> Or can this file be safely deleted?
> 
> Curious that after 3 years of accumulated/appended messages
> it just stopped in March this year with no more messages.
> 
> 
> ---------------------
>> 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:
>>> Today, I discovered the following file in my system's top '/' directory:
>>> - - - 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?
> 
> 
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