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 .SH "NAME"
 
-mymail \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection
+mymail \- A simple command line utility for indexing and searching mbox files
 
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 
@@ -38,22 +38,23 @@ for a mail to be selected.
 
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 
-To index all the mbox present in the directory ~/my_mboxes and create
-a db file /tmp/mymail.db
+To index all the mbox files present in the directory ~/archives/mails/2010
+(recursively) and create a data-base file /tmp/mymail/2010/mymail.db
 
 .RS
 .EX
-mymail --index --db-file /tmp/mymail.db /tmp/my_mboxes
+mymail --index --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010/mymail.db ~/archives/mails/2010
 .EE
 .RE
 
-To search in /tmp/mymail_2010.db and /tmp/mymail_2011.db for all mails
-having bob.something as sender or recipient, without "spam" in the
-subject
+To search in all the data-base files mymail.db located (recursively)
+in /tmp/mymail, for all the mails having bob.something as sender or
+recipient, without "spam" in the subject, and creating a result mbox
+file /tmp/mymail/mbox
 
 .RS
 .EX
-mymail --search "p bob.something,!s spam" /tmp/mymail_2010.db /tmp/mymail_2011.db
+mymail --db-file mymail.db --db-root /tmp/mymail --search 'p bob.something' --search '!s spam' > /tmp/mymail.mbox
 .EE
 .RE