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Re: [cobalt-users] dead.letter? user over disk space?



> In a directory for a user I just created, there's a file called dead.letter. 
> It's an empty file, but I'm wondering what caused it to appear.

Some (most) mail and news readers will create this file on startup to 
make sure it can use it if/when it needs to.  Other mail and news
readers will dump cancelled email into this file.  Given that it's 
empty, chances are the former.

tim

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