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@item remove-prefix
The directory part to be removed from the filenames returned by the
search query. This absolute path should include everything up to the
-top level of the message store.
+top level of the message store. Note that this is the path to the
+location of the actual messages, not to the search engine's indexes
+(nor, in the case of Mairix, to its symlink directories).
@item switches
Additional command-line switches to be fed to the search program. The