Hi, What you can do, is to edit (as root) /etc/aliases and uncomment the example #root marc to root [your email] and now you will receive all emails that are for root in your own mailbox, this way you will never see the message "you have email" and also the mailbox of root user will remain empty regards, Guillermo. <div>On 6/11/06, William Case <<a href="mailto:billlinux@rogers.com">billlinux@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi; This is just a curiosity question? I have been using Linux (FC) for over two years now, and I have never found a use for /var/spool/mail. Whenever I login as root I get messages telling me that I have mail. I just clean it out every 5 or 6 months. I read through it first using the mail utility but there never seems to be any information that is useful to me. I understand that on the original Unix systems 'mail' was how the system and the kernel would communicate with the user and root, but does it have any use now? Do people on the list use it anymore? If so, for what? How? Or, am I missing something basic? -- Regards Bill FC 5 -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div>