diff --git a/man/mu-extract.1 b/man/mu-extract.1
index 5dd09a18..fa5b96c9 100644
--- a/man/mu-extract.1
+++ b/man/mu-extract.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MU EXTRACT 1 "September 2010" "User Manuals"
+.TH MU EXTRACT 1 "October 2010" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ mu extract\- display and save message parts (attachments)
attachments) from mail messages. It works on message files, and does not require the
message to be indexed.
-For attachments, the name specified in the message is used; when saving
-mime-parts, a name is used, derived from the message-id of the message. Thus,
+For attachments, the file name specified in the mail message is used (if
+any). If there is no name, or when saving other mime-parts, a name is used
+derived from the message-id of the message.
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -23,18 +24,28 @@ mime-parts, a name is used, derived from the message-id of the message. Thus,
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-save\-attachments\fR
save all MIME-parts that look like attachments.
-\fB\-\-save\-all-parts\fR
+.TP
+\fB\-\-save\-all\fR
save all non-multipart MIME-parts.
-\fB\-\-target\-dir\fR=
-save the parts in the target directory rather than the current one.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-parts\fR=
+only consider the following numbered parts
+(comma-separated list).The numbers for the parts can be seen from running
+\fBmu extract\fR without any options but only the message file.
+.TP
+\fB\-\-target\-dir\fR=
+save the parts in the target directory rather than
+the current working directory.
+
+.TP
\fB\-\-overwrite\fR
overwrite existing files with the same name.
.SH BUGS
-
Please report bugs if you find them:
+
.BR http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list
.SH AUTHOR
diff --git a/src/mu-config.c b/src/mu-config.c
index b3def75b..55f42598 100644
--- a/src/mu-config.c
+++ b/src/mu-config.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ config_options_group_extract (MuConfigOptions *opts)
"save all attachments", NULL},
{"save-all", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE, &opts->save_all,
"save all parts (incl. non-attachments)", NULL},
- {"parts", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &opts->parts,
+ {"parts ", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING, &opts->parts,
"save specific parts", NULL},
{"target-dir", 0, 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME, &opts->targetdir,
"target directory for saving", NULL},