Count the number of messages in an mbox file

mbox-count.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# $Id$
# Author:  <cmgreen@uab.edu>
# Purpose: Count the number of mails in an mbox file
# Created: Fri Jun 28 10:39:13 CDT 2013

import sys
from mailbox import mbox
import re

def count_mbox(box):
    i = 0
    for n, msg in box.iteritems():
        i+=1

    return i

if __name__=='__main__':
    for f in sys.argv[1:]:
        print f, count_mbox(mbox(f))