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Re: [Sheflug] writing to floppy



On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 21:36, Chris J wrote:
> > -rw-------    1 hudson_a hudson_a     235M Oct  8 20:41
> > evolution/local/Inbox/subfolders/<work>/mbox
> 
> Ye gads. I don't know if I'd want to trust mbox-format files[1] to that sort 
> of size ... !

Hehehe :) And yes, I can confirm it's an mbox file.

> Nice thing about nmh is that it splits each message into a 
> seperate file - a system I've grown rather fond of :) 

Is that Maildir, or something customised? I know Qmail likes that format
too..

> Out of interest - how many email are in that mbox? Could just be one of
> 235MB for all I know :)

A noddy "grep 'Subject:' mbox | wc -l" (is there a better way? I looked
for some mbox tools, couldn't find any, and that seemed good enough...)
tells me that there are 12667 emails in there - there are probably a
couple of whoppers in there tho'. Average of about 20k, if my math is
close.

I've only had this machine a few months, too... although I did import
some mail.

Cheers,

Alex.

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