Email Count
Eudora Tip #123/06-Mar-2002

I receive an average of 244 messages per day and send an average of 9.6. That adds up to about 7,446 received and 295 sent average per month. OK, I’m a reader not a writer. And, no, I don’t actually read all those messages, nor do I have thousands of friends who all email me daily. The bulk of those messages are from mailing lists. Though mind you, I received some 300 emails last month which were Spam or carried viruses.

Now, just so you know, I didn’t spend my Saturday morning counting email messages and reviving rusty long division skills! Instead (as a user of Eudora 5) I went to the Window menu and chose Statistics. I checked the box marked More Statistics and I chose various options from the day / week / month / year pop-up.

Finally, I selected all the text, copied and pasted into my text editor, dragged the various graphs onto the desktop to make clippings files and then dragged them into my text document.

Well, all right – that last part was only as an experiment so I could tell you how to save the statistics in a potentially useful way.

The point is, Eudora 5 offers a statistics window which can keep count of your messages for you.

Oh, and how I knew how many were Spam — I file Spam and viruses away in their own mailbox and the numbers at the bottom left of the Eudora mailbox window tell me how many messages are in the mailbox. See Compacting mailboxes for more information on this.