Spam sorting (was Re: Install assistance needed in Berkeley area)

Nate Campi nate@campin.net
Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:21:04 -0800


On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:22:10PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> 
> Say, any quick way to count the number of messages in a mbox file?  
> Is  "grep -c '^From' file" sufficient?

You'd need to make sure there's a space after From, since your LDA
wouldn't escape a line starting with "Fromage", when your grep will
count it.
-- 
Nate

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