On Sunday, August 25, 2019 03:25:09 PM David Wright wrote: > grep -a '^From ' DIRECTORY/* | less > > where DIRECTORY is wherever you keep your mail, will give an indication > of how many emails you have stored. Then add your INBOX. My own totals > around 70,000. My 40GB root filesystem has 2½million inodes (13% used), > and /home (180GB) has 11½million (3%). So I'm not too apprehensive > about any future demise of mbox format. (Obviously, running a mailing > list or news server would be a different matter.)
Thanks for the information, but, darn, I wish you hadn't "inspired" me to check how many emails I have stored. I used a different approach (adding up the quantities shown in kmail for each folder) -- looks like I have something like 450,000 stored online since about 2005, and some number more stored offline before 2005. Still, I'm probably good on inodes.
