A mail file is just an ordinary text file. You can read it just fine with
editors like vi and emacs. So you can move it anywhere you please, under any
name at all -- it needn't stay in /var/spool .

BTW, Patrick Volkerding.

At 01:55 PM 1/6/99 -0800, Charles E. Gelm wrote:
>Hmmm, well the mail is the stock ones from the composer of the Slakware
>distribution, Patrick Volkersomethingorother.  I'd like to hang on to them.
>I could
>mv /var/spool/root /var/spool/nobody
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