To read old mail messages, first invoke PMDF MAIL. If you have no new messages, then you can begin reading your old messages with a press of the RETURN key. If, however, you do have new messages but do not want to read them at this time, then issue the command SELECT MAIL. This will select your old messages which you may then begin reading by pressing RETURN .
Use the READ command to display a particular message. First, however, you will need to know the number of the message to display. Determine the message number with the DIRECTORY command:
EMAIL> DIRECTORY
MAIL
# From Date Subject
1 mrochek@acme.com 26-SEP-1992 Numerical methods for ODEs
2 beckett@acme.com 19-NOV-1992 RE: Binary files
3 ralph@ulvacs.bit 12-DEC-1992 Thanks for the help...
4 bob@math.stateu. 28-JAN-1993 Department meeting - Monday, February 1
EMAIL> READ 4
With the SEARCH command, you can locate a particular message. The
SEARCH command displays the first message containing a specified phrase:
EMAIL> SEARCH MEETING Message MAIL 4 28-JAN-1993 11:13:21 Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: bob@math.stateu.edu To: faculty@math.stateu.edu Subject: Department meeting - Monday, February 1 Just a reminder that the monthly department meeting is at 3:00 PM next Monday. We still lack another volunteer to help Max out with graduate applications this year. Bob EMAIL>To continue a search, enter the SEARCH command again but without the phrase parameter:
EMAIL> SEARCHWhen no more messages can be found containing the specified phrase, the message
%EMAIL-E-NOTFOUND, no messages containing 'MEETING' foundwill appear.
To begin a new search, issue the SEARCH command along with the new phrase to search for. Each new search will begin with the first message, message number 1.