Re: Root's mail

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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).
What program do you use to read your mail?

> Was that a choice I made at some point in the long distant past?
> If not, why does root use a different spot?
> 
> 
What program do you use to read root's mail? Take a look at the
dates of the mail in /root/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/ - they are
probably old messages.

Mikkel
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