Re: [cobalt-users] Dead Letter Office?

[Dennis Koster <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:13:57PM -0500, Rob Spurlock wrote:
> Help please.  This question is for a RaQ. (yes, the original).  Just
> recently, we started getting disk full errors.  When I check the df -m, it
> shows the /var at 100%.  The culprit is a file called the dead.letter in
> /var/tmp and it completely fills the rest of /var.  Can anyone help me
> figure out what is causing this?  It keeps bringing our server down to its
> knees and customers are getting restless.
> cobalt-users mailing list

In my experience, dead.letter comes from pine.
When a user compese a message in pine, but dont want to send it, ping creates a "dead.letter"
But it should be in the users homedir and not in /var

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