Keith:
> I expect 5-10 thousand message. I basicall just need to have a way to count
> them and look at a couple of them to verify that they have the correct
> content. Any suggestion on what reader can do that??
Probably the easiest and quickest thing would be to just use grep.
Count your messages:
$ grep "^From " /var/spool/mail/reed | wc -l
213
Then use grep again to check for some particular content:
$ grep "keylabs" /var/spool/mail/reed | wc -l
8
Jeremy C. Reed
(By the way, I write for KeyLab's BugNet.com.)
