October 3, 1997 COUNTMAIL 6

### NAME

countmail - be obnoxious about how much mail you have

### SYNOPSIS

countmail

### DESCRIPTION

The countmail program counts your mail and tells you about it rather obnoxiously.

### SEE ALSO

from(1)

### HISTORY

The countmail program first appeared in NetBSD1.3.

### AUTHORS

countmail was first written by Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> in 1993. This version was written by Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@NetBSD.org>.

### CAVEATS

The read loop is horrendously slow on every shell implementation tried. countmail uses from(1) and wc(1) instead, though these are not shell builtins.