diff --git a/parse b/parse
index 1521769..77d89fd 100755
--- a/parse
+++ b/parse
@@ -33,16 +33,19 @@ def get_charset(part):
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Parses emails into an SQLite database, and optionally renders static HTML files.')
 
-parser.add_argument('-p', '--pattern', dest='pattern', action='store', default='*',
+parser.add_argument('-p', dest='pattern', action='store', default='*',
                    help='glob pattern (including path) that has to be matched for a file to be parsed')
                    
+parser.add_argument('-d', dest='database', action='store', default='emails.db',
+                   help='path of the database that should be used to store the emails (will be created if it does not exist yet)')
+                   
 parser.add_argument('-r', '--render', dest='render', action='store_true',
                    help='render static HTML files using the template files in templates/')
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
 options = vars(args)
 
-database = sqlite3.connect('emails.db')
+database = sqlite3.connect(options['database'])
 cursor = database.cursor()
 
 try: