This one time, at band camp, Alexander Samad wrote:
>thanks nicier, but as a side question any ideas on how I lost lines,
>there were there before the change to Maildir

You got the lines count because in mbox format it's easy to work out
when parsing the mailbox file.  In maildir format, it requires more
processing and since you don't need to know how long the messages are to
parse them all, it's not done.

Line counting in mbox parsing is a trivial extension, in maildir it's
unnecessary overhead.  Reading the Lines or Content-Length headers
(which I think is what Jeff is referring to) and relying on that is bad
practice for mail readers[1], but displaying the values it thinks are
correct is merely cosmetic.

[1]
http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/content-length.html

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