Re: [cobalt-users] Dead Letter Office?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Dennis Koster wrote:

> 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

'mail' will create dead.letter also, and is commonly invoked by cgi's, i'd
look for a confused cgi myself....