maildir format tools

syl20 · 01-19-2005, 04:15 AM

Hi everybody,
I wondered if a tool managing mailbox in maildir format exists.
I installed a new mail server a month ago.
Before, mailbox was in mbox format so it was easy for me to know mailbox size and sort them. But now mailbox are in maildir format and I'm not able to mange mailbox as before.
What's your experience about that?
Thx
Syl20

theYinYeti · 01-19-2005, 04:25 AM

What kink of "management" are you trying to achieve?

syl20 · 01-19-2005, 04:52 AM

I'd like to know mailbox size of each user.
With mbox format, 'ls-l /var/spool/mail/' allowed me to see the size of every mailbox.
'ls -l /var/spool/mail/ | sort -n -k +6 allowed me to sort them.
But now, I'm no more able to know size of any mailbox, instead of typing ls -l /var/spool/mail/toto/maildir/new and cur for each mailbox.
I can write a script which allow me to do that automatically, redirect in a file, and sort in the file.
But I thought that something exists to help me.

Best regards.

MasterC · 01-19-2005, 05:04 AM

du -h will display the size of the directory, and all subdirectories.

I believe a ls -lR does as well??... Whatever the recursive flag is, man ls.

Cool

theYinYeti · 01-19-2005, 06:47 AM

It seems, that by "sort", you mean "sort by size"... If so:

Code:

du -bs /var/spool/mail/* | sort -n

Yves.

syl20 · 01-19-2005, 06:55 AM

Excellent, that's what I wanted.
I didn't know what MasterC give me, but now I know, but I used
'du -bs /var/spool/mail/* | sort -n' that's exactly what I need
Thx Yves and MasterC, have a good day.
Syl20