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Desmond Coughlan <nospam_desmond@coughlan.net> writes:

> I login in the morning, start KDE and then run Emacs.  My RMAIL file,
> containing all my mail, is also on the server.  I hit M-X RMAIL to
> read new mail, and it loads the RMAIL file no problem, and then tells
> me that there is no new e-mail.
> 
> If, however, before logging into KDE, I telnet to my server, it tells
> me that there *is* new mail.  I can run Emacs on the server, execute
> the same sequence as above, i.e., check my mail in emacs, and then
> logoff, go into KDE, run emacs, run RMAIL, and then it will have the
> new messages.

Please note that there are two files: sendmail delivers mail into
/var/spool/mail/jrl, and RMAIL then calls movemail to transfer the
mails from there into ~jrl/RMAIL.

Can you export /var/spool/mail to the workstation?  That would be
easiest I guess.  Take care to NFS-mount it with attribute caching
disabled, though, lest you might lose mail.

Or set up a POP server on the server and then use POP to access the
mail from Emacs.

kai
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