---
name: "countmail"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "bsdgames"
version: "2.17-35"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/countmail"
---

# countmail(6)

be obnoxious about how much mail you have

## 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)](/from/1.md)

## HISTORY

The **countmail** program first appeared in NetBSD 1.3.

## 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)](/from/1.md) and [wc(1)](/wc/1.md) instead, though these are not shell builtins.