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One problem is file locking.  The program that reads
/var/spool/mail/jrl on the desktop machine needs to do file locking to
prevent sendmail (or whatever you use) from writing to the same file
at the same time.

Idea: given that you have an Emacs installation on the desktop
machine, you could do the following from the laptop:

# $desktop is the host name of the desktop machine.
# $movemail is the full path name of movemail on $desktop
# $mailfile is the full path name of /var/mail/foo on $desktop
# $desk_home is the home dir of the user on $desktop
# $lap_home is the home dir of the user on the laptop

ssh $desktop $movemail $mailfile $desk_home/TMPFILE
scp $desktop:TMPFILE $lap_home/TMPFILE

The above two commands could be put in a script which is used as
`:prescript' from mail-sources.  Then, tell Gnus to fetch mail from
TMPFILE.

How's that sound?
kai
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