SO I swapped over to old rpol momentarily to find I had two rmails that the top menu wasn't showing me (I have unique color settings so the links show up white against a coffee themed background)

I didn't see the rmail notification because it's not showing up red like regular unread messages do (I kept those red, blue, and purple respectively)
Then I went to check my rmails. I'd gotten a message from a player, and a system message. my rmail folder incorrectly displays the system message coming from the same author as the player.