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 Joe> Perhaps you could point out the specific situation in which you lost mail?
 
 Jack> I'd mail -v'd a quick msg to 'bout 3 people, all of whom had to be
 Jack> checked for .forward's in nfs-not-quite-mounted home directories.
 Jack> Anyway the msg ended up in ~/dead.letter.  Later on, in VM, I found
 Jack> myself wishing VM had a quicky way to pick up, for possible re-edit
 Jack> & resend, dead.letter.

In this case it was the MTA (most likely sendmail) that deposited
the failed mail into dead.letter.  It just a matter of giving
sendmail the right flags.  Most of the time you want errors mailed
back, though.

 Jack> Hmm, I wonder if I 'visited' dead.letter as a folder, since it can
 Jack> stack up many msgs . . .
 
 Joe> That would only work if the dead.letter file was in the correct format.  I
 Joe> haven't seen one in such a long time that I don't remember.

Unfortunately, MUAs like Berkeley Mail and MTAs like sendmail do
different things with dead.letter.  UCB Mail just puts the body
into dead.letter when you abort a message.  sendmail outputs the
headers and a UUCP From line along with the body.  With the
latter format you can use vm-visit-foldwer and visit dead.letter
like any other folder, edit and resend any messages you wish.