checked first to read the bodies only for mails which fulfill them
entirely.
.TP
-\fB8h\fR selects mails received during the last 8 hours.
-.TP
-\fBtoday\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fBweek\fR, and \fBmonth\fR selects mails received during the last 24, 7 * 24 hours or 31 * 24 hours.
+\fB8h\fR, \fBtoday\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fBweek\fR, and \fBmonth\fR selects
+mails received respectively during the last 8, 24, 24, 7 * 24 hours or
+31 * 24 hours.
.TP
\fByesterday\fR selects mails received between 48h and 24h ago.
.TP
.SH "EXAMPLES"
-To index all the mbox files present in the directories
-~/archives/mails/2010 and ~/archives/mails/2011 (recursively) and
-create a database file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db
+The command
.RS
.EX
-mymail --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db --index ~/archives/mails/2010 ~/archives/mails/2011
+mymail --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db \\
+ --index \\
+ ~/archives/mails/2010 ~/archives/mails/2011
.EE
.RE
-To search in all the database files *.db located (recursively) in
-/tmp/mymail, for all the mails having bob.something as sender or
-recipient, without "spam" in the subject, and create a result mbox
-file /tmp/mymail/mbox
+will index all the mbox files present in the directories
+~/archives/mails/2010 and ~/archives/mails/2011 (recursively) and
+create an index file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db
+
+And
.RS
.EX
-mymail --db-pattern '\\.db$' --db-root /tmp/mymail --search 'p bob.something' --search '!s spam' > /tmp/mymail.mbox
+mymail --db-pattern '\.db$' --db-root /tmp/mymail \\
+ --output /tmp/mymail.mbox \\
+ --search 'p bob.something' \\
+ --search '!s spam' \\
+ --search 'month'
.EE
.RE
+will search in all the database files *.db located (recursively) in
+/tmp/mymail, for all the mails having "bob.something" as sender or
+recipient, without "spam" in the subject, received over the last 31
+days, and create an mbox file /tmp/mymail/mbox.
+
.SH "BUGS"
The search in the mail bodies does not decode mimencoding mails, hence
will not catch patterns in encoded text.
+The mbox format is not clear for multipart messages, since the ^"From
+" lines are not always quoted properly (at least the ones I have to
+test).
+
.SH "AUTHOR"
Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org> and distributed