On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:25:47AM +0200, Ishai Parasol wrote: > I'm looking for a way to know (using the command line) the number of emails > that a /var/spool/mail/USERNAME file contains. Right now I'm using "less > /var/spool/mail/USERNAME | grep -c Subject: ", but it's not accurate enough > (cases of forwarded mails etc.). Any better ideas ?
You can use one of the many mbox reading libraries out there. I worked with the python one and it's very convenient to use. Another option is to look for a blank line followed by 'From xxx', which seems to be unique in my mbox file. See also: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1096280 > Another question. Is it possible to run pine with another user email file > (/var/spool/mail/USER) ? for example, I'm logged as root and want to read > USER2 emails (ofcourse, USER2 can't login, he's only a mail account and not > a "full user"). If it's impossible with pine, is there a client (not for X) > that can do it ? No idea about pine, I don't use that *expletive*, but mutt can certainly do it. -- Muli Ben-Yehuda "The speed of light really is too slow nowdays." -- Alan Cox ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
