Outlook can group the items together and give you an automatic count

1. Click on the Group By box on the Advanced toolbar.
2. Drag the From field into the Group By box that appears.

Alternatively
1. From the View menu, select Arange By ¦ From

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but I want the count from the server side not from the outlook

Outlook is an interface to a mail server. e.g. Exchange uses Outlook to examine mailboxes

[edited by: Monkey at 10:59 am (utc) on Aug. 10, 2007]