Cosmetics.

[mymail.git] / mymail.1

diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1
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+++ b/mymail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.5" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.8" "March 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
@@ -87,12 +87,9 @@ 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.
 
-The time-based conditions use as reference the time indicated in the
-heading From line, and not in the Date: field.
-
 .TP
 \fBf <regexp>\fR (from)
-selects mails whose leading line From, or fields From:, Sender:,
+selects mails whose leading line 'From', or fields From:, Sender:,
 Reply-To:, or Return-Path: matches the regexp.
 .TP
 \fBt <regexp>\fR (to)
@@ -113,13 +110,16 @@ 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, \fB48h\fR, \fBweek\fR, \fBmonth\fR, and
+\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.
 .TP
+\fBtoday\fR
+selects mails received since midnight.
+.TP
 \fByesterday\fR
-selects mails received between 48h and 24h ago.
+selects mails received yesterday.
 .TP
 \fBmonday\fR, \fBtuesday\fR, ..., \fBsunday\fR
 selects mails received the most recent such day of the week.
@@ -160,10 +160,15 @@ days, and create an mbox file /tmp/mymail/mbox.
 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 use for
+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).
 
+The date format for the Date: field is not standardized, and may not
+be parsed properly. When that happens, the time stamp from the
+leading 'From' line of the mail, which has a canonical form, is be
+used.
+
 .SH "AUTHOR"
 
 Written by Francois Fleuret <francois@fleuret.org> and distributed