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I posted a message about this problem a while back, but received no
reply.  I hope that someone can help me, as although it's not
critical, the following problem is a pain in the butt.

I'm logged onto a FreeBSD workstation at the moment, and have mounted
me $HOME which is on a Linux Slackware server in the next room.
Everything is fine; I have full read-write access to my files, and can
create, read, and delete at will.

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.

I can't move everything over to the workstation, as there are nightly
backups run on the server.  Somehow, the RMAIL file which I export via
NFS, doesn't catch the new e-mails, unless I run it during a telnet
session.  At the moment, for example, KBiff is telling me that there
is a new message for me.  Yet when I run RMAIL, it says 'no new
mail'.  

Could someone help me with this?  Having to do a telnet to get my mail
is a pain, and uses server resources ...  :-(

Thanks.  

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