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Date:      Sun, 16 Jun 2002 15:36:46 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Determining # of mail's per user
Message-ID:  <20020616203646.GB81446@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0206161529060.22536-100000@shell.core.com>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0206161529060.22536-100000@shell.core.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 16), Steven Lake said:
> 	What's the easiest way to determin how many emails a given user
> has on the mail server?  I need to generate a list of how many emails and
> how much space each mail file is taking up per user.  I'm having a space
> problem on one of the mail servers and I want to create a simple formatted
> output that I can put into a spreadsheet program and view who are the
> biggest offenders.  I could do it by mail file sizes, but to the less
> experienced telling them they have 150 megs of email on the server doesn't
> make as big an impact as saying they have 25,000 emails just sitting there
> idle and taking up space.  Plus it gives me some tangeble numbers to put
> in the records.

If you're using mbox format,

  grep -c "^From " /var/mail/*

will give you # of messages per user.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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