On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:32:05PM +0100, Michael Muster wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:15:52PM +0100, Alessandro Dotti Contra wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:23:52AM +0000, Tener Hades wrote: > > | > > |For mutt, I count the "Message-ID:" headers in my spoolfile ($MAIL). > > |Thus: > > | echo `grep "^Message-ID:" $MAIL | wc -l` > > > > echo `grep "^From " $MAIL | wc -l > > > > Should give a better result, since every mail should have an envelope > > from header (From .....). > > I have done it this way: > Inb: `grep "^From: " /home/michael/mail/inbox/new/* | wc -l` dwm:`grep > "^From: " /home/michael/mail/dwm/new/* | wc -l` dug:`grep "^From: " > /home/michael/mail/debian-user-german/new/* | wc -l` > > this works for me with my Maildir-directory, > Thank all for your help...
Since in Maildir every mail is a message, wouldn't `ls /home/michael/mail/inbox/new/|wc -l` do the same thing? Regards, -- Jeroen Schot [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mail & jabber) http://schot.a-eskwadraat.nl
