Added the -n option to set the maximum number of mails to extract.

[mymail.git] / mymail.1

diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1
index d42586f..7e48dcc 100644 (file)
--- a/mymail.1
+++ b/mymail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.8" "April 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.9" "June 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
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ directories following the options on the command lines
 \fB-o <output filename>\fR, \fB--output <output filename>\fR set the
 result mbox filename. If it is not set, the standard output is used
 .TP
+\fB-n <max number of mails>\fR, \fB--nb-mails-max <max number of mails>\fR set the
+maximum number of mails to extract (default is 250)
+.TP
 \fB-a <search key>\fR, \fB--default-search <search key>\fR
 set the default search key. If a search request is not understood,
 it is interpreted as the regexp with this default search key
@@ -116,18 +119,20 @@ condition requires to read the full mail from the original mboxes,
 which can be slow. To speed things up, all the header conditions are
 checked first.
 .TP
-\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.
+\fB8h\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fB48h\fR, \fBweek\fR, \fBmonth\fR, \fBtrimester\fR, and \fByear\fR
+
+select mails received during the last 8, 24, 48, 7 * 24 hours, 31 *
+24 hours, 92 * 24 hours, and 365 * 24 hours respectively.
 .TP
 \fBtoday\fR
+
 selects mails received since midnight.
 .TP
 \fByesterday\fR
 selects mails received yesterday.
 .TP
 \fBmonday\fR, \fBtuesday\fR, ..., \fBsunday\fR
-selects mails received the most recent such day of the week.
+select mails received the most recent such day of the week.
 
 .SH "EXAMPLES"