I've seen this problem a couple of times before, and it's happening again.
My mail is not being deleted from the spool when exmh incorporates it. As a result, the same messages are incorporated again and again. Using inc from the command line seems to solve the problem. Sometimes (not always), I end up with an extraneous lock file that survives the inc orporation, but just deleting this doesn't solve the problem. I have installed: ii biff 0.10-1 a mail notification tool ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+48-2 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader [en ii exmh 2.0.2-4slink2 An X user interface for MH mail. ii grepmail 3.4.1-4 search mailboxes for mail matching an expres ii mailx 8.1.1-10 A simple mail user agent. ii metamail 2.7-31 An implementation of MIME. ii mime-support 3.5-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and sup ii nmh 0.27-0.28-pre8 A set of electronic mail handling programs. rc procmail 3.13.1-1 Versatile e-mail processor. ii smail 3.2.0.102-1 Electronic mail transport system. ii xmh 3.3.2.3a-11 X interface to MH mail system any hints? --