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 -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!