PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition
PMDF-USR-VMS-6.0

Read a message.

Syntax

READ [message-id[,...]]

Qualifiers	Defaults
/ALL	/NOALL
/CONFIRM	/NOCONFIRM
/CONTENT	/CONTENT

PARAMETERS

message-id

A comma separated list of one or more message identification numbers shown with a previous DIRECTORY command. Ranges are allowed.

DESCRIPTION

The READ command may be used to read one or more queued messages. The messages to display are specified by their message identification numbers shown by the most recent DIRECTORY command. Those numbers appear in the leftmost column of the DIRECTORY command listing.

QUALIFIERS

/ALL

/NOALL (default)

Display all messages shown with the last DIRECTORY command.

/CONFIRM

/NOCONFIRM (default)

When /CONFIRM is specified, you will prompted to confirm whether or not to display each selected message.

/CONTENT (default)

/NOCONTENT

Specify /NOCONTENT if you only wish to read the message envelope and header.

EXAMPLES

In the following example, message 3 is displayed.

qm.user> READ 3
Message id: 3 
 
Transport layer information: 
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Envelope From: address: fresnel@innosoft.com 
Envelope To: addresses: bernoulli 
 
Message header: 
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Received: from INNOSOFT.COM by INNOSOFT.COM (PMDF V5.0-1 #8790) 
 id <01HNPFR0P5OW9D4GAS@INNOSOFT.COM> for BERNOULLI@INNOSOFT.COM; Fri, 
 03 Mar 1995 16:48:41 -0700 (PDT) 
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 16:48:40 -0700 (PDT) 
From: Fresnel the tabby cat <fresnel@innosoft.com> 
To: bernoulli@innosoft.com 
Subject: catnip and catnaps 
Message-id: <01HNPFR12JYA9D4GAS@INNOSOFT.COM> 
MIME-version: 1.0 
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII 
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT 
 
Message content: 
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Did you get into my catnip whilst I was catnapping? 
 
              - Fresnel 
qm.user>