On 26-12-2009, at 18h 12'03", Wu, Yue wrote about "Re: How to count new emails
in mbox format mailbox?"
>
> My script does this: count the mails in some particular maildir, then assign
> the
> number to a var:
>
>
> if [ -d ${mymaildir} -a $(find ${mymaildir} -type f -print | wc -l) -ne 0 ];
> then
> mailsnew="$(find ${mymaildir}/*/new -type f | wc -l | sed 's/ //g')"
> # mails=$(($(find ${mymaildir}/*/cur -type f | wc -l | sed 's/ //g') +
> ${mailsnew}))
> if [ ${mailsnew} -ne 0 ]; then
> if [ -d ${mymaildir}/private ]; then
> privmailnew="$(find ${mymaildir}/private/new -type f | wc -l |
> sed 's/ //g')/"
> fi
> if [ -d ${mymaildir}/inbox ]; then
> inmailnew="$(find ${mymaildir}/inbox/new -type f | wc -l | sed
> 's/ //g')/"
> fi
> mailsfmt="[${privmailnew}${inmailnew}${mailsnew}]"
> fi
> fi
>
> But I don't know how to transform this script to suit for mbox mails counting.
>
You were told already...
privmailnew=$(grep -c '^From ' ${private})
inmailnew=$(grep -c '^From ' ${inbox})
Replace ${private} and ${inbox} with the files you keep the e-mails.
Ionel
