Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I wonder why root on my FC-6 machine keeps its mail >> in /root/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ , >> and not in /root/Mail ? >> >> Was this some setting I inadvertently made? >> And can I change it? >> > This is where Kmail stores it. The system is probably putting it in > /var/spool/mail/root. Kmail reads the mail from the system mailbox, > and puts it in its own inbox. But my own email is stored in ~/Mail/ (in ~/Mail/inbox/ , etc). Was that a choice I made at some point in the long distant past? If not, why does root use a different spot? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
