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 can 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 want 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Envelope From: address: doej@example.com Envelope To: addresses: jones Message header: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Received: from EXAMPLE.COM by EXAMPLE.COM (PMDF V5.0-1 #8790) id <01HNPFR0P5OW9D4GAS@EXAMPLE.COM> for BERNOULLI@EXAMPLE.COM; Fri, 02 Aug 2012 16:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2012 16:48:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Doe <doej@example.com> To: jones@example.com Subject: sea voyage Message-id: <01HNPFR12JYA9D4GAS@EXAMPLE.COM> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message content: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you be interested in taking a short cruise to Nova Scotia? - DoeJ qm.user>