X-Git-Url: https://www.fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=mymail.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=mymail.1;h=58535700bf660be28eeb43865376c0dea5d6cd53;hp=e48633b440353d340be82d6842f9b4e0f42fc292;hb=4f759d118ae5f5dd9e19d96c21128d4db20a9075;hpb=3ca38393b46c2bbba39f7b0bd4ca3ea918384b1d diff --git a/mymail.1 b/mymail.1 index e48633b..5853570 100644 --- a/mymail.1 +++ b/mymail.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.2" "February 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" +.TH "MYMAIL" "0.9.8" "April 2013" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands" \" This man page was written by Francois Fleuret \" and is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ print the version number \fB-q\fR, \fB--quiet\fR do not write information during the search .TP +\fB-t\fR, \fB--use-leading-time\fR +use the time stamp from the leading line of each mail and not the +Date: field +.TP \fB-p \fR, \fB--db-pattern \fR set the db filename pattern for recursive search .TP @@ -40,11 +44,14 @@ set the db root path for recursive search \fB-l \fR, \fB--db-list \fR set the semicolon-separated list of db files for search .TP +\fB-m \fR, \fB--mbox-pattern \fR +set the mbox filename pattern for recursive search +.TP \fB-s \fR, \fB--search \fR search for 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 \fR, \fB--db-file \fR +\fB-d \fR, \fB--db-file-output \fR set the db filename for indexing .TP \fB-i\fR, \fB--index\fR @@ -54,9 +61,9 @@ directories following the options on the command lines \fB-o \fR, \fB--output \fR set the result mbox filename. If it is not set, the standard output is used .TP -\fB-a \fR, \fB--default-search \fR -set the default search field. If a search request is not understood, -it is interpreted as the regexp with this default search field +\fB-a \fR, \fB--default-search \fR +set the default search key. If a search request is not understood, +it is interpreted as the regexp with this default search key .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" @@ -71,18 +78,20 @@ defaut value for the --db-root argument 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 CONDITIONS" -.SH "SEARCH SYNTAX" +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. -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. +If it is prefaced by the character "!", a condition is negated and has +to be false for a mail to be selected. .TP \fBf \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 \fR (to) @@ -98,21 +107,24 @@ selects mails whose field Subject: matches the regexp. selects mails whose field Date: matches the regexp. .TP \fBb \fR (body) + selects mails whose body matches the regexp. Evaluating 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. +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. .TP -\fB8h\fR, \fBtoday\fR, \fB24h\fR, \fBweek\fR, \fBmonth\fR, and -\fByear\fR -selects mails received during the last 8, 24, 24, 7 * 24 hours, 31 * -24 hours, and 365 * 24 hours respectively. +\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 +selects mails received the most recent such day of the week. .SH "EXAMPLES" @@ -120,7 +132,7 @@ The command .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 @@ -145,14 +157,29 @@ will search in all the database files *.db located (recursively) in 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 -" lines are not always quoted properly (at least the ones I have to -test). +The mbox format is not clear for multipart messages, since the 'From' +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 +leading 'From' line of the mail, which has a canonical form, is used. .SH "AUTHOR"