webmail » read(var,profile,id)

Description

This command instructs Nexial to retrieve email contents from the inbox specified in the profile. The id represents the “email id”, which is determined via the search(var,profile,searchCriteria,duration) command. The details of the email is stored into var.

Parameters

• var - the target variable name to which the email details will be stored.
• profile - the webmail profile in the data file which specifies the settings like inbox, provider etc.
• id - the id of the email to be read.

Consider the following example where you can read the details of an email based on its email id.

Example

Script:

In the above example you can see that once the email is read we can retrieve the following email details:

Email Details

• id - The id of the email read.
• from - The from address of the email.
• to - The to address of the email.
• subject - The subject of the email.
• time - The time at which the email is received.
• content - The text content of the email.
• links - The list of the html links in the email.
• html - The html content of the email.

See Also

• delete(profile,id)
• search(var,profile,searchCriteria,duration)