In our good old days, our mails exist only in /var/spool/mail. Sun's OS came up with /var/mail/. That seems to be acceptable although I did not like anyone chainging the directory from the original BSD/System V directory standard. Now, I am absolutely unable to track my emails. All those mailers put the mail stuff in their own preferred locations. I will give a shot of my setting. My institution has an email server. "emailserv.kjist.ac.kr" It allows POP3, runs qmail. and some sort of spam filter. My local machine (mysuse.kjist.ac.kr) has just been upgraded to SuSE-9.0. On SuSE-8.2, I used to run fetchmail as a local user (ghsong) from my SuSE-machine. Fetchmail fetches emails from emailserv to mysuse:/var/spool/mail/ghsong. When, mozilla-mail starts, the imap-protocol picks up emails from mysuse:/var/spool/mail/ghsong to ~/mbox. That was my permanent mail holder. Now, right after upgrading to SuSE-9.0, I realized that local-user initiated fetchmail command in the above method does not work any more. SuSE should have warned about this. So, I went throught yast2-> Network Service -> Mail Transfer Agent to set up fetchmail system-wide, and then activated it at Runlevel. OK, it started fetching and brought my emails into mysuse:/var/spool/mail/ghsong. So far so good. Then, I newly installed spamassassin.rpm and I guess I set up everything properly. Suddenly, fetchmail got emails from emailserv.kjist.ac.kr. But it does not exist in mysuse:/var/spool/mail/ghsong any more. Where is it? This behavior did not change even though I disabled spamassassin after noticing the loss.. Out of this unforgiving experiment, I think I lost track of about thirty emails, although > 90 % of them are actually spams. Please help. Thanks a lot. Hugh