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histmbox - an mbox histogram generator

Fri, 13 Apr 2007

*updated: Fri Apr 13 11:39:12 MDT 2007*

histmbox reads one or more mbox-style mailbox files and prints out a histogram of how many message were received per day. This is useful for testing whether new mail filters are effective or not, for example.

Sample usage:

histmbox Mail/spam

Sample output:

20070331: ################## (18)
20070401: ############## (14)
20070402: ############### (15)
20070403: ###################### (22)
20070404: ######################### (25)
20070405: ################## (18)
20070406: ################## (18)
20070407: ############# (13)
20070408: ########################## (26)
20070409: ################ (16)
20070410: ######################## (24)
20070411: ######################### (25)
20070412: ######################## (24)
20070413: ########## (10)

Current version: 0.96 (rev 1.1 2007/04/13 17:14:31)

Download:

<histmbox>

Installation:

Move the file into your path somewhere (~/bin, /usr/local/sbin, etc.) and:

chmod 755 /path/to/histmbox