OT - what does nmsgs tell me?

[Joost Waversveld]

Just an wild guess but doesn't it mean "new messages"? so in this 
particular case there would be 11 new (unread) messages??

Best regards,

Joost Waversveld

Steve Campbell wrote:
> I've googled, but can't find exactly what the nmsgs part of a log 
> entry in my maillog is telling me. For example, see below:
>
> Mar 22 13:21:10 mailserver ipop3d[17789]: Login user=mailuser 
> host=fwx128.cnpap
> ers.net [216.12.119.190] nmsgs=11/21
>
> I don't understand what the "11/21" means. I thought it meant 11 of 21 
> messages were deleted, which meant 10 remained on the server, but that 
> doesn't make sense to me.
>
> Any answer would be appreciated.
>
> Steve Campbell
>

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Joost Waversveld