How to avoid the dead.letter generation with sendmail.

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Issue

  • When the local user sends a mail with mailx command into any non-existent recipient, the dead.letter file is created on the home directory of the sender.
  • We want to know the way to avoid this dead.letter generation.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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