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From: jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: dead.letter mode
Message-ID: <326@fantasci.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 06:00:30 GMT
References: <4711@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jep@fantasci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Organization: Fantasci Incorporated
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In article <4711@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>
>(Once dead.letter is created in the user's directory and its mode
>changed to 0600, it remains so, but this is not the best solution
>because eventually dead.letter will grow and get deleted by the user.)

Well, I can't help you with your primary question but from this last paragraph,
you could suggest to your users what I do here on my system.  Create a file
called dead.letter in each users home directory, then change the permissions to
whatever you or they desire.  Then from cron every week, you can have the file
nulled out by 'cat /dev/null >$HOME/dead.letter' or you can have the file sent
to the user via mail first then null it out.  This will keep the file there on
a constant basis with the permissions you want.  It works real well here with
the exception that I have it null'ed once a day.

Hope this helps...

-Jo

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