diff --git a/parse b/parse
index 8f1dbda..1372162 100755
--- a/parse
+++ b/parse
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import os, argparse, hashlib, email, email.header, email.utils, glob, sqlite3, time
 
-parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Parses emails into an SQLite database, and optionally renders static HTML files.')
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Parses emails into an SQLite database and an attachment folder.')
 
 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')
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@ parser.add_argument('-d', dest='database', action='store', default='emails.db',
 parser.add_argument('-a', dest='attachment_dir', action='store', default='attachments',
                    help='path where attachments should be stored (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 template files')
-                   
 parser.add_argument('-f', '--forced', dest='forced', action='store_true',
                    help='force insertion into database, even if entries already exist')
 
diff --git a/render b/render
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c993aaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/render
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import os, argparse, hashlib, sqlite3, time
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Renders static HTML pages and indexes from an SQLite database of emails and an attachment folder.')
+
+parser.add_argument('-d', dest='database', action='store', default='emails.db',
+                   help='path of the database that should be used to render the e-mail files')
+                   
+parser.add_argument('-a', dest='attachment_dir', action='store', default='attachments',
+                   help='path where attachments are stored')
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+options = vars(args)
+
+# Connect to database
+database = sqlite3.connect(options['database'])
+cursor = database.cursor()
+
+cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM emails")
+email_list = cursor.fetchall()
+
+print email_list