Mikkel L. Ellertson 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? I use kmail to read my mail, which is stored in ~/Mail . I also use kmail to read root's mail, which is not stored in ~root/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. No, all messages for root are stored there. [I get daily messages there sent to non-existent users on my system. I might say that I get email by uucp, among other methods.] You haven't really answered my 2 questions: 1. Why is root's mail stored here? Was it because there wasn't a directory /root/Mail/ when I first ran kmail as root? 2. Is there any way of changing where root, or any user, stores email? I don't see anything in kmail Settings which specifies where email is stored (after transfer from /var/spool/mail/ ). -- 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
