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sinyaw@starbright.smsc.sony.com (Sin-Yaw Wang) writes:
 > On this SVR4 system, mails are deposited in "/var/mail" directory, instead
 > of the usual "/usr/spool".  I set my "vm-spool-files" and
 > "vm-spool-directory" as part of the vm-mode-hooks (see below) and vm still
 > can't file my incoming mails.

Most likely the problem is that the movemail program that's
distributed with Emacs can't retrieve the mail from your mailbox.
This is probably because it cannot create the required lock file
because you don't have write permission in the /var/mail
directory.  Get the person who installed Emacs on your system to
install movemail with the right permissions so that it can do its
job.