Re: dead.letter file - is this related to A-S-K ??

Marc Herbert <[email protected]> Thu, 13 May 2004 23:22:03 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405132319210.2561@fcat>
On Thu, 13 May 2004, D T wrote:

> One of our scripts is suddenly writing data to a "dead.letter" file at /home/username:
>
> /home/username/dead.letter
>
> Is this related to A-S-K ?

With 99.9% probability: no.


> Never saw this before, and don't have a clue why it's there.

I have seen a couple of unix MUAs (mail user agents) doing this when
the user press "cancel" before sending. Think of it as a trash for
drafts.

Cheers,

Marc.


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