X-Git-Url: https://fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=mymail.1;h=7e48dccb9bdb105f1337ac52e5fe00ecd3d541bc;hb=1ed39d135312a0c698adf82d81a1723a9141bca3;hp=03382d9177ef2e52f23692968047f3922f29fe82;hpb=00434484dd0b89eb91cb6ea9be03eeaee1f97751;p=mymail.git diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1 index 03382d9..7e48dcc 100644 --- a/mymail.1 +++ b/mymail.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.8" "April 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.9" "June 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike @@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ directories following the options on the command lines \fB-o \fR, \fB--output \fR set the result mbox filename. If it is not set, the standard output is used .TP +\fB-n \fR, \fB--nb-mails-max \fR set the +maximum number of mails to extract (default is 250) +.TP \fB-a \fR, \fB--default-search \fR set the default search key. If a search request is not understood, it is interpreted as the regexp with this default search key @@ -79,6 +82,9 @@ defaut value for the --db-list argument .TP \fBMYMAIL_DB_FILE\fR defaut value for the --db-file-output argument +.TP +\fBMYMAILRC \fR +configuration file, default is ${HOME}/.mymailrc .SH "SEARCH CONDITIONS" @@ -107,23 +113,26 @@ selects mails whose field Subject: matches the regexp. selects mails whose field Date: matches the regexp. .TP \fBb \fR (body) + selects mails whose body matches the regexp. Evaluating such a -condition requires to read the original mboxes completely, which can -be slow. However, header conditions are checked first to read the -bodies only for mails which fulfill them entirely. +condition requires to read the full mail from the original mboxes, +which can be slow. To speed things up, all the header conditions are +checked first. .TP -\fB8h\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fB48h\fR, \fBweek\fR, \fBmonth\fR, \fBtrimester\fR, -and \fByear\fR selects mails received during the last 8, 24, 24, 48, 7 -* 24 hours, 31 * 24 hours, 92 * 24 hours, and 365 * 24 hours respectively. +\fB8h\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fB48h\fR, \fBweek\fR, \fBmonth\fR, \fBtrimester\fR, and \fByear\fR + +select mails received during the last 8, 24, 48, 7 * 24 hours, 31 * +24 hours, 92 * 24 hours, and 365 * 24 hours respectively. .TP \fBtoday\fR + selects mails received since midnight. .TP \fByesterday\fR selects mails received yesterday. .TP \fBmonday\fR, \fBtuesday\fR, ..., \fBsunday\fR -selects mails received the most recent such day of the week. +select mails received the most recent such day of the week. .SH "EXAMPLES" @@ -156,6 +165,17 @@ will search in all the database files *.db located (recursively) in recipient, without "spam" in the subject, received over the last 31 days, and create an mbox file /tmp/mymail/mbox. +.SH "FILES" + +The configuration file is by default ${HOME}/.mymailrc and can also be +specified through the MYMAILRC environment variable. + +It allows to define aliases of search keys, such as: + +.P +.nf +.B alias tod=today + .SH "BUGS" The search in the mail bodies does not decode mimencoding mails, hence @@ -167,8 +187,7 @@ recognize such lines. The date format for the Date: field is not standardized, and may not be parsed properly. When that happens, the time stamp from the -leading 'From' line of the mail, which has a canonical form, is be -used. +leading 'From' line of the mail, which has a canonical form, is used. .SH "AUTHOR"