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What is dead.letter and how can I remove it?
What is dead.letter and how can I remove it?
Tonight when I wanted to access my VestaCP Panel it had a 502 error. Then after consulting VestaCP and following Skurudo's steps I accessed my VPS with SSH to try and restart VestaCP. Before I did it, I took a directory of my VPS and found the following file in it that I don't have an understanding for:
dead.letter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 16369 Jun 22 07:39 dead.letter
Is it possible to explain what it is? I wasn't working on my VPS on 22 June. I also haven't installed mail on my VestaCP or VPS. I only have a minimal installation of VestaCP with nginx+apache, DNS (named), fail2ban firewall, DB and remi.
I decided not to restart VestaCP until I understood what the file was about. Is it something I should worry about and how should I remove it?
dead.letter
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 16369 Jun 22 07:39 dead.letter
Is it possible to explain what it is? I wasn't working on my VPS on 22 June. I also haven't installed mail on my VestaCP or VPS. I only have a minimal installation of VestaCP with nginx+apache, DNS (named), fail2ban firewall, DB and remi.
I decided not to restart VestaCP until I understood what the file was about. Is it something I should worry about and how should I remove it?
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Re: What is dead.letter and how can I remove it?
Thanks for the link @DarthVader. Not sure whether I should use the command in it as it says it is untested.
I did find this unix solution of 2004 for "quarantining" the file. Not sure how I'm going to stop the file from replicating itself though.
https://www.unix.com/49239-post2.html?s ... a56f044434
In the meanwhile I've restarted VestaCP successfully.
I did find this unix solution of 2004 for "quarantining" the file. Not sure how I'm going to stop the file from replicating itself though.
https://www.unix.com/49239-post2.html?s ... a56f044434
In the meanwhile I've restarted VestaCP successfully.