-.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.8" "March 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.8" "April 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
\" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>
\" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
matching mails in the db file. Multiple search requests can be
combined, and only mails fulfilling all of them will be extracted.
.TP
-\fB-d <db filename>\fR, \fB--db-file-generate <db filename>\fR
+\fB-d <db filename>\fR, \fB--db-file-output <db filename>\fR
set the db filename for indexing
.TP
\fB-i\fR, \fB--index\fR
defaut value for the --db-list argument
.TP
\fBMYMAIL_DB_FILE\fR
-defaut value for the --db-file argument
+defaut value for the --db-file-output argument
-.SH "SEARCH SYNTAX"
+.SH "SEARCH CONDITIONS"
-The search conditions take the form of a key which is a single letter,
-followed by a space and a regexp, which can itself contain spaces. If
-the condition is prefaced by the character "!" it is negated, and has
+A search condition is either a time-related condition
+('today', 'yesterday', etc.), or a single-character key, followed by a
+space and a regexp, which can itself contain spaces.
+
+If it is prefaced by the character "!", a condition is negated and has
to be false for a mail to be selected.
.TP
be slow. However, header conditions are checked first to read the
bodies only for mails which fulfill them entirely.
.TP
-\fB8h\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fB48h\fR, \fBweek\fR, \fBmonth\fR, and
-\fByear\fR
-selects mails received during the last 8, 24, 24, 48, 7 * 24 hours, 31 *
-24 hours, and 365 * 24 hours respectively.
+\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.
.TP
\fBtoday\fR
selects mails received since midnight.
.P
.nf
-.B mymail --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db \e
+.B mymail --db-file-output /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db \e
.B \ \ \ \ \ \ \ --index \e
.B \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ~/archives/mails/2010 ~/archives/mails/2011
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
+specificied 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
will not catch patterns in encoded text.
The mbox format is not clear for multipart messages, since the 'From'
-may not always be quoted properly (at least the ones I use for
-testing).
+may not always be quoted properly, so mymail uses a strict regexp to
+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