#### 3.20.6 mailutils stat ¶

The command `mailutils stat` shows status of a mailbox. The name or URL of the mailbox to operate upon is supplied in the first argument. If not given, the command will display status of the invoking user system mailbox.

    $ mailutils stat
    type: maildir
    path: /var/mail/smith
    URL: /var/mail/smith
    size: 3498
    messages: 24
    recent messages: 3
    first unseen: 20
    uidvalidity: 1338543026
    next uid: 87
    access: 2016-12-15 09:15:08 +0200

The output format is controlled by the `--format` (`-c`) option. Its argument is the desired format string, composed of ordinary characters, which are reporduced on standard output verbatim, backslash sequences, and format specifiers, beginning with ‘`%`’.

Backslash sequences are interpreted as in C.

A format specifier consists of a leading ‘`%`’ followed by a letter. Optional ‘`:`’ may occur between ‘`%`’ and the letter. Its presense instructs the program to print the description of the corresponding value before the value itself.

The following format sequences are understood:

%f

  Name of the mailbox as supplied in the command line. If `mailutils stat` was used without explicit mailbox argument, ‘`%f`’ is equivalent to ‘`%U`’.

%t

  Type of the mailbox (‘`mbox`’, ‘`maildir`’, etc.). The description string is ‘`type`’.

%p

  Path to the mailbox. In case of remote mailboxes, it is the path part of the mailbox URL. Description string: ‘`path`’.

%U

  URL of the mailbox. Description string: ‘`URL`’.

%s

  Size of the mailbox in octets. Description string: ‘`size`’.

%c

  Number of messages in the mailbox. Description string: ‘`messages`’.

%r

  Number of recent (unread) messages in the mailbox. Description string: ‘`recent messages`’.

%u

  Index of the first unseen message. Description string: ‘`first unseen`’.

%v

  The UIDVALIDITY value. Description string: ‘`uidvalidity`’.

%n

  The UID value which will be assigned to the new message to be incorporated into the mailbox. Description string: ‘`next uid`’.

%a

  Access time of the mailbox, as a number of seconds since the epoch.

%A

  Access time of the mailbox in human-readable format.