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If you have a busy mailbox on a daily basis, then the following method will give you some more information about your e-mail messages. This is very useful if you are subscribed to many mailing lists (professional or not) and you want a clean inbox.
- You have to use procmail to distribute your incoming e-mail messages into appropriate mailboxes.
- You must enable procmail’s logging feature by including a line like
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail-from
into your ‘~/.procmailrc’ file (man procmailrc for more details)
- Download the statmail PERL script and install it in your ‘~/bin’ directory
- Set up a cron job like the following (everything goes in one line and remember to edit the pathnames):
00 00 * * * /home/username/bin/statmail < /home/username/mail-from | /usr/bin/mailx -s "daily mail statistics" username@localhost && rm /home/username/mail-from
From now on (and every midnight), you ‘ll receive a new e-mail message containing an analytical report of how many messages you ‘ve received today (or, should I write, yesterday?) and the mailbox they were stored.
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