Oct 18, 2010 · Either a program tried to send mail and failed (this is more likely), or you were in the middle of writing mail and broke out, so the client saved the draft in dead.letter. From the mail man …

The default is save. and nosave Normally, when you abort a message with two interrupt characters (usually control-C), mail copies the partial letter to the file dead.letter in your home directory.

Apr 2, 2017 · The dead.letter file is created by mail clients when they cannot send email. It's likely you don't have any mail subsystem installed on your machine. The date of the file corresponds to the …

Feb 7, 2020 · The dead.letter is saved for the non-mailable recipient called test. Try to add -t to the mail command to see "To: test" appearing in the dead.letter. Finally omit -s "test" from your mail …

Oct 7, 2016 · The dead.letter thing is easy to explain: This is the standard reaction if a mail should be sent but no method of delivery can be found by the mail-sending software.

Jan 9, 2019 · The file dead.letter is created when the mta fails when it tries to send a mail. Check all the configurations related with the mail server (credentials, mail server...) and also that you can reach …

Sep 22, 2022 · What process is generating dead.letter? Ask Question Asked 3 years, 5 months ago Modified 3 years, 4 months ago

Apr 22, 2015 · I have a job scheduled by cron running every day, and the job is about compressing a folder using tar; and I found that the standard output of tar keeps getting written into ~/dead.letter …

Apr 11, 2025 · I am trying to configure smartd to send mails via s-nail on Fedora 41. I created a .mailrc file (in which I have set the mta variable to directly send via smtps, there is no sendmail installed) in ...

Aug 2, 2017 · 1 git doesn't have anything directly to do with the ~/.dead.letter file. git tried to send an email (probably with the mail, mailx, or sendmail command). That program was unable to send the …