I'm in a real jam: can't run X server, and so trying to run rmail out of emacs in text mode from a command prompt. But I'm having trouble with rmail in this situation.
Fetchmail works (dumps new messages into /var/spool/mail/<username>). However, even though I'm logged in as user and run rmail under emacs, it says permission denied to access old stored mail (~/RMAIL), but nevertheless then proceeds to load it properly. Rmail then works normally with old messages. But when I try to access new messages from /var/spool/mail/usrname, I get permission denied for /var/spool/mail /root. I don't know why it tries to read root's mail, and chmod o+r username does not help. The only way I can read my mail is to read /var/spool/mail/username file directly with emacs, which is a pain (partly because for some reason, in text mode, Ctl-home does not take me to the top of the file). First question. If I'm logged in as user and user starts emacs and then rmail, why does rmail (when run from a command prompt in text mode) fail to seek its own incoming mail spool file? Is there any way to tell rmail what it's spool file is? Second. I get hundreds of messages a day, and I'm already overwhelmed by the size of user's mail spool file. To what extent can it be edited directly (such as by cutting out undesirable messages)? If I could communicate properly, I could start addressing my basic problems. Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
