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- READ
-
- Displays your messages. It can be entered with or without parameters.
-
- Pressing the RETURN key is the same as entering the READ command without
- parameters. If you enter the READ command without parameters or press RETURN
- immediately after MAIL is invoked, MAIL displays the first page of your oldest
- unread message in your NEWMAIL folder.
-
- If there are no unread messages, MAIL displays the oldest message in the MAIL
- folder. Each time you enter the READ command without parameters, or press
- RETURN, MAIL displays the next page, or the next message if there are no more
- pages in the current message.
-
- If a new message arrives while you are in MAIL, you can enter READ/NEW to read
- the message, and then return to the previous MAIL activity.
-
- Format: READ [folder-name] [message-number]
-
- Parameters: folder-name
-
- Indicates the name of the folder containing the messages to be
- read. If a folder name is specified, MAIL displays messages from
- that folder. If no folder name is specified, MAIL displays
- messages from the current folder.
-
- message-number
-
- Indicates the number of the message to be read. The message
- number represents the position of a message in a folder. If you
- specify a number greater than the number of messages in the
- folder, MAIL displays the last message in the folder.
- Therefore, to read the latest message in a folder, specify a
- large message number or enter the LAST command.
-
-
- Qualifiers: /BEFORE
-
- /BEFORE=date
-
- Displays mail messages received before the specified date.
-
- /CC_SUBSTRING
- /CC_SUBSTRING=text
-
- Selects messages which contain "text" in the CC field of the
- message.
-
- /EDIT
-
- Invokes the editor to read the message.
-
- /FROM_SUBSTRING
-
- /FROM_SUBSTRING=text
-
- Selects messages that contain "text" in the FROM field of the
- message.
-
- /MARKED
-
- /[NO]MARKED
-
- Selects messages which have been marked. The /NOMARKED qualifier
- selects messages that are not marked.
-
- /NEW
-
- Displays new mail messages received while you are in MAIL.
-
-
- /REPLIED
-
- /[NO]REPLIED
-
- Selects messages which have been replied to with the REPLY
- command. The /NOREPLIED qualifier selects messages that
- have not been replied to.
-
- /SINCE
-
- /SINCE=date
-
- Displays mail messages received on or after the specified date.
-
- /SUBJECT_SUBSTRING
-
- /SUBJECT_SUBSTRING=text
-
- Selects messages which contain "text" in the SUBJECT field of
- the message.
-
- /TO_SUBSTRING
-
- /TO_SUBSTRING=text
-
- Selects messages that contain "text" in the TO field of the
- message.
-
-
- Examples:
-
- 1.
- MAIL> READ/BEFORE=16-MAY
-
- This example shows how to use the /BEFORE qualifier with
- the READ command to display all the mail messages received
-
- before May 16, 1988 in the current folder.
-
- 2.
- MAIL> READ/SINCE=13-OCT
-
- This example shows how to use the /SINCE qualifier with the
- READ command to display all the mail messages received on
- or after October 13, 1988 in the current folder.
-
- 3.
- MAIL> READ/NEW
-
- This example shows how to read new mail received while you
- are in MAIL.
-
- 4.
- MAIL> READ/SUBJECT_SUBSTRING= REVIEW
- # From Date Subject
-
- 1 JONES 13-APR-1988 Your Review
-
- This example shows how to use the /SUBJECT_SUBSTRING
- qualifier to find messages that contain the text REVIEW.