From: gary(_at_)Intrepid(_dot_)Com (Gary Funck)
But this still leaves the question: how many messages are in
the mailbox? So far, I've thought of two approaches:
I'll leave it to others to debate the feasibility of your
proposed approach to the problem. But I thought I'd point
out one possibly useful way to count messages as being
the "messages" command. It's part of the elm package, but
works independently and is usually in a standard path if
it's on your server.
11:11am /netcom15:~> messages
There are no messages in your incoming mailbox.
11:11am /netcom15:~> messages ~/Mail/procmail
There is 1 message in folder ~/Mail/procmail.
11:12am /netcom15:~> which messages
/usr/local/bin/messages
--
\ .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. /
\-d-/-m-\-a-/-n-\-(_at_)-/-n-\-e-/-t-\-c-/-o-\-m-/-.-\-c-/-o-\-m-/
'-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-'