My guess is that the behavior is probably caused by either the POP server
or xfaces. As far as I know, GNUS does not touch the /usr/mail files until
you hit 'g' to have gnus pull the mail out of /usr/mail into the gnus
buffers (unless you set up GNUS to automatically retrieve mail which
I don't do).
> If you want to change this behaviour, you should be able to do it
> by fiddling with the XFaces.ignoreMessageBindings resource.
I'll try that. If I get it to work I'll let you know. I have already
tried to comment out that resource but that did not make any difference
(in case this makes any difference, I'm running xfaces on HPUX 10.01).
>
> Thanks for asking this question - this behaviour bugged me too, but
> I haven't bothered looking for an answer before now. :-)
>
As I said before I'm new to faces/xfaces but I'm very surprised that
this would be the default behavior. The package seems very well thought
out and designed in many other respects - that's why I was hoping
that it was just me misunderstanding how to set some resource that
was causing this behavior.
-- Tomislav