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- SELECT
-
- Establishes a folder of messages that you can affect as a group. You can COPY
- or MOVE selected messages from one folder to another. Or, you can READ and
- DELETE, or SEARCH and EXTRACT a folder of messages. After you SELECT a folder
- of messages, you can use the following commands to affect them:
-
- COPY
- DELETE
- DIRECTORY
- EXTRACT
- FILE
- MOVE
- READ
- SEARCH
-
- You can also use the SELECT command to move from one folder to another.
-
- If you select a folder that does not exist, MAIL displays the following
- message:
- %MAIL-E-NOTEXIST, folder 'folder-name' does not exist
-
- Format: SELECT [folder-name]
-
- Parameters: folder-name
-
- The name of the folder to be selected. If no folder name is
- specified, the current folder is selected.
-
- Qualifiers: /BEFORE
-
- /BEFORE=date
-
- Indicates that messages dated before the specified date be
- selected. If no date is specified, all the messages received
- before the current day are selected.
-
- /CC_SUBSTRING
-
- /CC_SUBSTRING=text
-
- Selects messages which contain "text" in the CC field of
- the message.
-
- /FROM_SUBSTRING
-
- /FROM_SUBSTRING=text
-
- Selects messages which 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
-
- Indicates that new (unread) messages be selected. This
- qualifier can only be used with the MAIL file.
-
- /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
-
- Selects messages dated 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 which contain "text" in the TO field of the
- message.