PMDF popstore & MessageStore Manager's Guide

The show command is used to display a message stored in the popstore. The message to display is identified by its file name as given by the %msg_filename substitution string of the show_user command.

This command must be presented to the user information CGI which uses the URL

http://host:7633/msps_user/

The parameter names and associated values accepted by the command are listed in Table 5-2.

Table 5-2 show Command Parameters

parameter=value		Description
filename=file-spec	Required	File name for the message file to display. Note that this is not a full file path but rather a path relative to the popstore message file directory tree. A user can only display a message file referenced in his or her profile's list of stored messages. As such, user's cannot try displaying random file names in the hopes of seeing another user's mail.
trim=bvalue	Optional	Boolean value, 0 or 1. Only honored when part is also specified. When bvalue is 1 header trimming will be applied. When bvalue is 0, no header trimming is applied. The default is bvalue=1.
mformat=file-spec	Required	Name of the formatting file to use to format the message. The recognized substitution strings for this formatting file are listed in Table 4-10 and Table 4-22.
on_error=file-spec	Required	Name of the formatting file to use to format the results when the command fails.
on_success=file-spec	Required	Name of the formatting file to use to format the results when the command succeeds.
part=bvalue	Optional	Non-negative integer value indicating which message part to display. To display the entire message, specify part=0. The first message part is part=1, the second part=2, and so on.

An example command to show the message file A0123450 is shown below:

command=show&filename=A0123450&mformat=msg.txt& on_success=msg_success.txt&on_error=msg_error.txt

A sample formatting file is shown in Example 5-1.

Example 5-1 show_message Formatting File

%none{Message could not be accessed or no longer exists} <PRE> %msg_content </PRE>

When the part parameter is specified, the message will be interpreted as a MIME-formatted message and displayed all at once, but divided into parts. Binary parts will be represented by hypertext links which can be clicked on to download the associated data. Header trimming will be applied to the message's outer header as well as any internal headers. To suppress this trimming, specify trim=0 in the command. Header trimming uses a default header trimming option file. Sites can supply their own header trimming option file if they want. See Section 5.2.2 for further details.