On 08:33 17 Jul 2003, Kelerion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I'm trying to find out how many emails I have stored in various
| "personal folders" in mozilla's email..
| is there a way to count them? I've had a look but can't find anything
| obvious other than doing a "Search Messages" and searching for every
| email where the sender contains an "@" sign.. not very quick or
| efficient..especially as I now have over 100,000 emails stored..
Cd to the directory holding the Mozilla email. Mozilla stores them as
standard UNIX mail files, so:
grep '^From ' mailfile | wc -l
will count every line beginning with a "From ", which is the start-of-message
marker for those files. So in that folder:
for mailfile in *
do echo -n "$mailfile: ";
grep '^From ' "$mailfile" | wc -l
done
should be a good first cut. Note that this will probably also count
"deleted" messages if you haven't used the "compact folders" button
(which rewrites mail files without the deleted messages).
Cheers,
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