.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike \" 3.0 License. .SH "NAME" mymail \- A simple command line utility for dynamic pattern selection .SH "SYNOPSIS" \fBmymail\fP [\fIoptions\fR] [\fI\fR [\fI\fR ...]] .SH "DESCRIPTION" \fBmymail\fP is a command line utility for to index mbox files and perform quick searches based on sender, subject, etc. It is similar in spirit to other existing software such as mu or notmuch. .SH "EXAMPLES" To index all the mbox present in the directory ~/my_mboxes and create a db file /tmp/mymail.db .RS .EX mymail --index --db-file /tmp/mymail.db /tmp/my_mboxes .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 .RS .EX mymail --search "p bob.something,!s spam" /tmp/mymail_2010.db /tmp/mymail_2011.db .EE .RE .SH "BUGS" None known, probably many. .SH "AUTHOR" Written by Francois Fleuret and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.