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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9652.0. "dead.letter contents" by BACHUS::CLEVELAND (L'Escargot) Tue Apr 29 1997 09:39

    
    Can anyone tell me the format for dead.letter (if there is one).
    
    A customer involved in banking transactions would like to be able to
    automate a procedure whereby when something goes wrong and a
    dead.letter is produced they can retrieve the contents and create a new
    message from it.
    
    From what I can see it just seems to be a text file containing address
    info and then the contents. Is there any set format?
    
    Thanks,
    
    Brian Cleveland
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9652.1CFSCTC::SMITHTom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751Tue Apr 29 1997 22:4011
    It's in standard UNIX format (same as /usr/spool/mail/<user>) with
    messages delimited by a line beginning "From sender ..." with no
    colon after the "From". You can read it with, for example:
    
    	mail -f /<path>/dead.letter
    	mailx -f /<path>/dead.letter
    
    or just about any other UNIX mail client with the appropriate switches
    and/or configuration.
    
    -Tom