.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