[TriLUG] dead.letter file help

Corey Mutter corey at mutternet.com
Mon Nov 14 12:35:45 EST 2005


I see this in the work mailserver I set up, which is Sendmail, and just 
takes email from the outside and relays it to our Exchange server (after 
doing clamav, etc.) 

>From time to time, our network would get hosed. When my Sendmail box 
can't resolve the Exchange server's (MAIL_HUB) address via DNS, then it 
will dead.letter the mail. I got our IT guy to swear the Exchange 
server's address would remain fixed, then put it in the hosts file, to 
fix that. 

Corey

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:44:25PM -0500, Lisa Boyd wrote:
> > formail -ds dead.letter > newmail
> 
> I still don't know why the email was being dumped in the dead.letter
> file, but here's how I got it out :) Took me awhile (longer than
> normal!).
> 
> formail -ds <dead.letter >>mail/folder
> 
> If anyone has any ideas as to what I can check in regards to
> forwarding this email to another ISP email address, please pass it
> along. Hope the meeting tonight went well!
> 
> Lisa B.
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