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-.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.1" "February 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
 
 \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org>
 \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike


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 .SH "NAME"
 
 
 .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"
 
 
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 

-\fBmymail\fP [\fIoptions\fR] [\fI<mbox dir1>\fR [\fI<mbox dir2>\fR ...]]
+\fBmymail\fP [\fIoptions\fR] [\fI<mbox dir1>\fR [\fI<mbox dir2>\fR ... ]|\fI<db file1>\fR [\fI<db file2>\fR ... ]]\n");

 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 
 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 

-\fBmymail\fP is a command line utility for to index mbox files and
-perform quick searches based on sender, subject, etc.
+\fBmymail\fP is a command line utility 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
 
 It is similar in spirit to other existing software such as mu or

-notmuch.
+notmuch, but does not use a real database backend to store and query
+the index.
+
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+.TP
+\fB-h\fR, \fB--help\fR
+display help and exit
+.TP
+\fB-v\fR, \fB--version\fR
+print the version number
+.TP
+\fB-q\fR, \fB--quiet\fR
+do not write information during the search
+.TP
+\fB-p <db filename pattern>\fR, \fB--db-pattern <db filename pattern>\fR
+set the db filename pattern for recursive search
+.TP
+\fB-r <db root path>\fR, \fB--db-root <db root path>\fR
+set the db root path for recursive search
+.TP
+\fB-l <db filename list>\fR, \fB--db-list <db filename list>\fR
+set the semicolon-separated list of db files for search
+.TP
+\fB-s <search pattern>\fR, \fB--search <search pattern>\fR
+search for matching mails in the db file
+.TP
+\fB-d <db filename>\fR, \fB--db-file <db filename>\fR
+set the db filename for indexing
+.TP
+\fB-i\fR, \fB--index\fR
+index mails in the mailboxes located recursively anywhere in the
+directories following the options on the command lines
+.TP
+\fB-o <output filename>\fR, \fB--output <output filename>\fR
+set the db filename pattern for recursive search
+.TP
+\fB-a <search field>\fR, \fB--default-search <search field>\fR
+set the default search field: If a search request is not understood,
+it is interpreted as the regexp with this default search field
+
+.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
+
+.TP
+\fBMYMAIL_DB_PATTERN\fR
+defaut value for the --db-pattern argument
+.TP
+\fBMYMAIL_DB_ROOT\fR
+defaut value for the --db-root argument
+.TP
+\fBMYMAIL_DB_LIST\fR
+defaut value for the --db-list argument
+.TP
+\fBMYMAIL_DB_FILE\fR
+defaut value for the --db-file argument
+
+.SH "SEARCH SYNTAX"
+
+The search conditions take the form of 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 to be false
+for a mail to be selected.
+
+.TP
+\fBf <regexp>\fR (from) selects mails whose leading line From, or
+fields From:, or Reply-To: matches the regexp.
+.TP
+\fBt <regexp>\fR (to) selects mails whose field To:, Cc:, or Bcc: matches the regexp.
+.TP
+\fBp <regexp>\fR (participant) selects mails whose leading line From,
+or fields From:, Reply-To:, To:, Cc:, or Bcc: matches the regexp.
+.TP
+\fBs <regexp>\fR (subject) selects mails whose field Subject: matches the regexp.
+.TP
+\fBd <regexp>\fR (date) selects mails whose field Date: matches the regexp.
+.TP
+\fBb <regexp>\fR (body) selects mails whose body matches the
+regexp. Evaluatin 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.
+.TP
+\fB8h\fR, \fBtoday\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fBweek\fR, and \fBmonth\fR selects
+mails received respectively during the last 8, 24, 24, 7 * 24 hours or
+31 * 24 hours.
+.TP
+\fByesterday\fR selects mails received between 48h and 24h ago.
+.TP
+\fBmonday\fR, \fBtuesday\fR, ..., \fBsunday\fR selects mails received
+the most recent such day

 
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 
 
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 

-To index all the mbox present in the directory ~/my_mboxes and create
-a db file /tmp/mymail.db
+The command

 
 .RS
 .EX
 
 .RS
 .EX

-mymail --index --db-file /tmp/mymail.db /tmp/my_mboxes
+mymail --db-file /tmp/mymail/2010-2011/mymail.db \\
+       --index \\
+       ~/archives/mails/2010 ~/archives/mails/2011

 .EE
 .RE
 
 .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
+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
 
 .RS
 .EX

-mymail --search "p bob.something,!s spam" /tmp/mymail_2010.db /tmp/mymail_2011.db
+mymail --db-pattern '\.db$' --db-root /tmp/mymail \\
+       --output /tmp/mymail.mbox \\
+       --search 'p bob.something' \\
+       --search '!s spam' \\
+       --search 'month'

 .EE
 .RE
 
 .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"
 
 .SH "BUGS"
 

-None known, probably many.
+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
+" lines are not always quoted properly (at least the ones I have to
+test).

 
 .SH "AUTHOR"
 
 
 .SH "AUTHOR"