Show size of a mail/posting?

Show size of a mail/posting?

[Loris Bennett]

Hi,

What's the easiest way to display the total size, i.e. including
attachments, of a mail or posting?

Cheers,

Loris

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Re: Show size of a mail/posting?

[Emanuel Berg]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> What's the easiest way to display the total size,
> i.e. including attachments, of a mail or posting?

What mail client do you use?

If it archives the post/mail as a single text file,
you can use

    $ ls -b -l FILE

or

    $ wc -c FILE

to count the bytes/chars, including the headers.

As for the attachment you can do the same (ls -bl) on
the file and then add the number of bytes to that of
the text file.

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Re: Show size of a mail/posting?

[Teemu Likonen]

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Loris Bennett [2017-06-26 08:07:23+02] wrote:

> What's the easiest way to display the total size, i.e. including
> attachments, of a mail or posting?

In summary buffer the raw message content can be piped to external
command with "|" key. So "| wc" counts lines and bytes. The raw message
content can be displayed with "C-u g". Then on that buffer "M-x
count-words" count lines, words and characters.

With custom Emacs Lisp code these function are likely useful:

    (gnus-summary-show-raw-article)
    (get-buffer gnus-article-buffer)

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Re: Show size of a mail/posting?

[Emanuel Berg]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

>     (gnus-summary-show-raw-article)
>     (get-buffer gnus-article-buffer)

And

    (buffer-size)

?

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Re: Show size of a mail/posting?

[Loris Bennett]

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Loris Bennett [2017-06-26 08:07:23+02] wrote:
>
>> What's the easiest way to display the total size, i.e. including
>> attachments, of a mail or posting?
>
> In summary buffer the raw message content can be piped to external
> command with "|" key. So "| wc" counts lines and bytes. The raw message
> content can be displayed with "C-u g". Then on that buffer "M-x
> count-words" count lines, words and characters.
>
> With custom Emacs Lisp code these function are likely useful:
>
>     (gnus-summary-show-raw-article)
>     (get-buffer gnus-article-buffer)

Piping to 'wc' seems be what nearly what I need.

However, if I display the raw message and do 'wc -c' I get a smaller
value than if I don't display the raw message, move the cursor to the
attachment, display it inline and then do 'wc -c'.  In this latter case
I get the real size of the attachment as given if I save it separately.

Is this the expected behaviour?

Cheers,

Loris

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