PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition

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 can 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@example.com 26-JUL-2012 Numerical methods for ODEs 2 beckett@example.com 19-AUG-2012 RE: Binary files 3 ralph@example.com 12-JUN-2012 Thanks for the help... 4 bob@xanadu.com. 28-JUL-2012 Department meeting - Monday, August 26 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-2012 11:13:21 Date: 28 Jun 2012 11:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: bob@example.com To: engineering@example.com Subject: Department meeting - Monday, July 1 Just a reminder that the monthly department meeting is at 3:00 PM next Monday. Bob EMAIL>

To continue a search, enter the SEARCH command again but without the phrase parameter:

EMAIL> SEARCH

When no more messages can be found containing the specified phrase, the message

%EMAIL-E-NOTFOUND, no messages containing 'MEETING' found

will 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.