Re: Root's mail

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

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>
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>