Prompt cosmetics.

[mymail.git] / mymail.1

diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1
index fbb8898..c6b00b3 100644 (file)
--- a/mymail.1
+++ b/mymail.1
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ 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"
 
@@ -90,38 +94,62 @@ or fields From:, Reply-To:, To:, Cc:, or Bcc: matches the regexp.
 \fBd <regexp>\fR (date) selects mails whose field Date: matches the regexp.
 .TP
 \fBb <regexp>\fR (body) selects mails whose body matches the
-regexp. This requires reading the original mboxes completely, which
-can be slow. Header conditions have to be fulfilled before checking
-the body ones, which may speed things up.
+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"
 
-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
 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"
 
 Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org> and distributed