Delimiter of a standard mail spool file.

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From: Eric A. Litman
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:05

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Could somebody please tell me what the standard delimiter of a mail
spool file is? I would like to write a script that tells me how many
messages I have total, the number new, and the number unread (as does
Mail upon startup). I have written one that does this, but it chokes on
forwarded messages when I grep for Message-Id: (I gave up on From: ).

Thanks in advance.
-Eric

P.S. If somebody has already written something to do this (preferrable in
C, that would be nice, too  :-)

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