$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename '*/new/*'| wc -l 123156 $ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename '*/cur/*'| wc -l 24244
If it’s not obvious, that means I have 123k unread emails and 24k read ones. I archive off read emails older than 60 days, but still, that’s pretty pointless and stupid. It’s time to have a purge and unsubscribe from all those lists which I always think I’ll get around to reading at some point.
Update: Just over a week later and with some ruthless pruning, things look much better:
$ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename '*/new/*' | wc -l 2234 $ find /home/andy/Maildir -type f -wholename '*/cur/*' | wc -l 16774
so you can start replying to emails 🙂