RMAIL does not load new mail

[Jason Harrison]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (mips-sgi-irix6.5, X toolkit)
 of Tue Aug 22 2000 on lutece.cs.ubc.ca
configured using `configure  --prefix=/cs/local/generic/lib/pkg/emacs-20.7 
--exec-prefix=/cs/local/lib/pkg/emacs-20.7 --with-gcc'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

My status bar in emacs reports that I have mail, and
/usr/mail/harrison contains messages.  But when I try to get mail in
RMAIL (using either M-x RMAIL or just g in RMAIL) RMAIL tells me that
I have no new mail.

This happens when I'm logged into both out Solaris and our Irix
machines -- it used to happen occasionally on our Solaris machines and
then would go away.  I've touched my /usr/mail/harrison file to make
sure it is newer than my ~/RMAIL file but no good.  Why is that my
Status line can report new mail but RMAIL can/won't load it?

My RMAIL file is 253320 bytes (not as large as it has been).  If I
rename it and then try to get mail I'm told: 
BABYL OPTIONS: -*- rmail -*-
Version: 5
Labels:
Note:   This is the header of an rmail file.
Note:   If you are seeing it in rmail,
Note:    it means the file has no messages in it.

-Jason

Recent input:
ESC x r m RET g g e C-c C-c g q C-x C-g ESC x r m RET 
ESC x e m a c s - b SPC DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL DEL 
DEL r e p o SPC r t - e m SPC b SPC RET

Recent messages:
Saving file /grads2/harrison/RMAIL...
Wrote /grads2/harrison/RMAIL

(No new mail has arrived)
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