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From: mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson )
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU 17.64 rmail on Pyramid - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 23:43:13 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  9 23:43:13 1986
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Reply-To: mike@yetti.UUCP (Mike Clarkson )
Organization: York University Computer Science
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Summary: Check GNU Emacs movemail

Rmail reads your incoming mailbox (from the files in rmail-inbox-list) 
by calling  rmail-insert-inbox-text.  This in turn uses the `c' program 
movemail which is in ./gnuemacs/etc/ to copy the mail from your mailbox 
to a temporary file ~/.newmail

		  (call-process
		    (expand-file-name "movemail" exec-directory)
		    nil nil nil file tofile)

It uses movemail so that Emacs can read the mail file without conflicting
with someone else who may be accessing /usr/spool/mail/$USER ($MAIL on
most Un*x systems) at the same time (sending you mail).  If movemail 
doesn't work, nor will rmail-insert-inbox-text.

Make sure movemail works first.  Try

% movemail $MAIL ~/.newmail

first to make sure it works.  movemail should move the contents of $MAIL
to ~/.newmail. If your system supports file locking, $MAIL should be
empty (0 bytes), and all of your mail should be in ~/.newmail.  If this
doesn't work, fix it and Rmail should work.

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