[SOLVED] dead.letter file 11Gb in size in root

[Myles]

Hello once again good people.
The problem - whilst investigating another - what I thought was a problem but turned out not to be - I accessed root in Dolphin and noticed the file "dead.letter" which is 11Gb in size! I searched around online and found out about it holding some sort of messages but I don't know how to access the file to read them, or even clear the entire file to free up that space on root.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.

[doktor5000]

Hi there,

when e.g. msec is configured to send mails for the reports it runs, and no MTA (mail transport agent) is configured, those mails will end up in /dead.letter as they cannot be delivered.
See e.g. viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9985 or maybe https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4890 for some more details.

And maybe https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Dma_Dragonfly_Mail_Agent for a simple MTA, which should be installed by default.

[Myles]

As always, doktor,
Thankyou for those links I'll look them up.
Anyway, once I go through the links and deal with the file successfully I will mark my question Closed.