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mailcount

Have you ever wanted a simple tool to count the messages in your maildir folder? Here it is: mailcount! You can specify which messages you want to see in the output (new, flagged, seen, ...) and use a self-defined format for displaying the numbers! That way, you can always have an eye on your favorite means of communication. ;)

Download

mailcount-0.2 (2008-03-24)
mailcount-0.1 (2007-02-24)

Install

$ make mailcount
$ su -c "cp mailcount /usr/local/bin/"

Usage

Notice: The order of the parameters has changed from version 0.1 to version 0.2!

mailcount FORMAT FOLDER1 [FOLDER2 [...]]

Format flags

D: drafts
F: flagged messages
N: new messages
O: old messages (not new but not seen yet)
P: passed messages (resent/forwarded/bounced)
R: replied messages
S: seen messages
T: trashed messages
X: total number of messages

Examples

$ mailcount "X(N)[F]" ~/mail/inbox/
7(2)[1]

The output says: 7 messages total, 2 new, 1 flagged (muttng style)

$ mailcount N ~/mail/inbox/ ~/mail/spam/
14

Sums up the new messages from the inbox and the spam folder.