I have just begun using mailagent, and am hoping for some enlightenment regarding its behaviour.
I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like: popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't automatically refiled as a result of matching one of the rules are then stored in the file ~/mbox.sgk, which has the same format as /var/spool/mail/sgk. Then I try to fetch mail messages from mbox.sgk into my MH inbox, by executing: inc -file ~/mbox.sgk What's odd is that I often have to execute inc more than 1 time -- sometimes 2 times, to get all the files from mbox.sgk into +inbox. For example, as a result of running popclient, I might see that 4 messages are being obtained from my ISP. Then if I run inc -file ~/mbox.sgk, I might see one mail message (and none have been added to any of the folders that match my ~/.rules). If I run inc -file ~/mbox.sgk again, I might see that same message, plus another 3 messages. Another confusing point is that even though my ~/.mh_profile says inc: -norpop -truncate -audit audit-file the file mbox.sgk is not zero'd after I fetch the files in it. Seeking advice, Susan Kleinmann
