SUMMARY
To display a Microsoft Mail Message Center similar to the one used in
Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, use the following command with
Microsoft Mail version 2.0:
msmail (displayMessageCenter [, typeFilter] [, subjectFilter]
[, enclosureFilter]) => messageList
With Microsoft Mail version 3.0, the command has an additional
parameter:
msmail(DisplayMessageCenter [, typeFilter][, subjectFilter]
[, enclosureFilter][, buttonTitle]
This function allows you interactively browse through and delete
messages, and select one or several messages. A list of the selected
messages is returned in "messageList" if you click OK. If you click
Cancel, a message list is returned, but the messagecount is zero.
NOTE: The "Microsoft Mail HyperCard Interface Documentation" stack
incorrectly states on the card describing the DisplayMessageCenter
command that "empty" is returned if Cancel is clicked.
"typeFilter" is a single message type to be returned. For example,
"Mess" would display only Note messages.
"subjectFilter" specifies the exact subject a message must have. An
empty string "" matches all messages.
"enclosureFilter" specifies the type(s) of enclosure a message must
have. For example, "TEXTWDBN" would display messages containing text
or Microsoft Word files.
"buttonTitle" specifies the name of the action button, and it defaults
to "Open".
For a description of the format of messageList, see getMessageList in
the documentation. Note that in Mail 3.0 you cannot move messages from
one folder to another, except when deleting files.
Note: This command in Mail 2.0 is not compatible with HyperCard
version 2.0. Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Mail 2.0.
This problem was corrected in Mail 3.0.
This information is taken from the "Microsoft Mail HyperCard Interface
Documentation."