From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18642 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Show size of a mail/posting? Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:53:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3sfjibb.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87k23zs2n8.fsf@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1498463644 5960 195.159.176.226 (26 Jun 2017 07:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 07:54:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 26 09:53:59 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dPOqL-00017F-O5 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:53:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPOqP-0006C4-1k for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPOqM-0006Ba-N8 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:53:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPOqJ-0004Sk-NV for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36369 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dPOqJ-0004SG-HB for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dPOqB-0000fd-EO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:53:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:v7fzPCen25DpLgFLTQgppHlxRxQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "info-gnus-english" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18642 Archived-At: "Loris Bennett" 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. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573