Update the TODO list.

Clarify that the parameter to the "-o" switch is a MAILBOX instead of a
FOLDER (which could be confused with an ordinary filesystem folder).

Added per Roman Nezval's comment.

.gitignore

@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ compile
 depcomp
 install-sh
 missing
+src/mboxgrep.exe
+configure~
+.gitignore
+.vscode/*

AUTHORS

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
--*- text -*-
-
-mboxgrep is written and maintained by Daniel Spiljar.
-
-$Id: AUTHORS,v 1.3 2005-11-16 01:37:18 dspiljar Exp $

AUTHORS.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mboxgrep is written and maintained by Daniel Spiljar with contributors.

TODO.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - [x] reading messages from standard input
 - [x] run-time selection of file locking method
 - [x] add a debug function
+- [ ] Remove the option to recursively traverse directories and instruct the users to run mboxgrep in conjuction with find(1) instead.
 
 ## File formats, encodings and standards
 
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@
 - [ ] support for mail folder conversion
 - [ ] improve error detection when a directory is not a Maildir or MH folder
 - [ ] document criteria for folder format detection
+- [ ] Maildir: check if an atomic rename() fails. This could be caused if "new" and "cur" subdirectories are not on the same filesystem, for example.
 
 ## Miscellaneous
 

configure.ac

@@ -93,7 +93,5 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strptime])
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(ftw)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fts_open)
 
-AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
-                 doc/Makefile
-                 src/Makefile])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile doc/Makefile src/Makefile])
 AC_OUTPUT

doc/mboxgrep.1

@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ Do not lock files.  This option is meaningful only if a mbox folder (see below)
 is scanned.
 .IP "-c, --count"
 Suppress normal output and print a count of matching messages.
-.IP "-o, --output=FOLDER"
-Suppress normal output and write messages to destination folder FOLDER instead.
+.IP "-o, --output=MAILBOX"
+Suppress normal output and write messages to destination MAILBOX instead.
 .IP "-p, --pipe=COMMAND"
 Pipe each found message to COMMAND
 .IP "-d, --delete"

doc/mboxgrep.info

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is mboxgrep.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.7 from
+This is mboxgrep.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.8 from
 mboxgrep.texi.
 
 INFO-DIR-SECTION Mail
@@ -151,10 +151,10 @@ options below change such behavior.
 '-nd'
      Ignore duplicate messages.
 
-'--output=FOLDER'
-'-o FOLDER'
-     Suppress normal output and write messages to destination folder
-     FOLDER instead.
+'--output=MAILBOX'
+'-o MAILBOX'
+     Suppress normal output and write messages to destination MAILBOX
+     instead.
 
      Note that 'mboxgrep' assumes the output folder is of the same
      format as the input folder.  Currently there is no possibility to
@@ -256,11 +256,11 @@ Node: Miscellaneous1828
 Node: File locking2113
 Node: Regexp selection2750
 Node: Output control3302
-Node: Search scope selection4346
-Node: Mailbox type selection4587
-Node: Examples4908
-Node: Bugs5732
-Node: To Vicky6150
+Node: Search scope selection4342
+Node: Mailbox type selection4583
+Node: Examples4904
+Node: Bugs5728
+Node: To Vicky6146
 
 End Tag Table
 

doc/mboxgrep.texi

@@ -171,10 +171,9 @@ Use with extreme caution.
 @itemx -nd
 Ignore duplicate messages.
 
-@item --output=FOLDER
-@itemx -o FOLDER
-Suppress normal output and write messages to destination folder FOLDER
-instead. 
+@item --output=MAILBOX
+@itemx -o MAILBOX
+Suppress normal output and write messages to destination MAILBOX instead.
 
 Note that @code{mboxgrep} assumes the output folder is of the same format 
 as the input folder.  Currently there is no possibility to convert folders.