The format used by sendmail is commonly referred to as "Unix Mailbox Format". Each mailbox is a single file. Each message begins with a line beginning "From ". This line is followed by the header section, which ends with a null line. This is followed by the body, which also is followed by a null line.
To count the messages in such a file, you could use: cat mailbox_file | grep -Ec "^From " Hope this helps. A. Becker "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now that the system is up and running, I'm moving on to the next "problem" block. I'm using sendmail as my MTA, and I have quotas enabled on the /home drive. However, how do I also count the users' spool files in /var/spool/mail/<user> (where sendmail dumps incoming messages)? I want each user's quota to reflect both their account and their spool file. > > -- > H | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." - John Gardner > +-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . 303.442.6410 x130 > Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave, #6 > http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
