On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 03:24 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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? > That was done by the mail client you use. Again he mail was moved from /var/mail/<login name> -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
