Root's mail

[Timothy Murphy]

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?


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