On Dec 11, 11:12am, Dallman Ross wrote:
Subject: Re: pruning mbox's based on number of messages?
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.
Thanks, Dallman. It is a good idea. Turns out though that
"messages" is a shell script, which ultimately does the
following:
mcount=`egrep -c "^From " $fname`
which uses grep on '^From ' to get the message count. I think
this isn't exactly right from a MIME-compliance point of view.
Maybe someone will help to clarify this point.