contributing datasets, was: Is bogotune helpful?

[David Relson]

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 16:27:03 +0100
Boris 'pi' Piwinger <3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:
> 
> >My ham msgbox had 17109 messages. My spam msgbox had 20,000 messages.
> >However, a grep of MSG_COUNT revealed 17119 and 20,000 respectively.
> >Why would the former be a little off?
> 
> It is always a bit risky to use formail -s since some
> processes forget a seperator line before the From_ line. Try
> formail -es, which should give the same number of messages
> as grep -c '^From '.
> 
> pi

pi,

Excellent tip.  It caused me to realize that script msg-count.sh should
run formail rather than have formail run msg-count.sh, i.e.

Not:	formail -es msg-count.sh < mbox_file > msg_count_file
But:	msg-count.sh < mbox_file > msg_count_file

This makes it easier for the user and ensures that formail is run in the
best way.

Thank you for the suggestion.

David