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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