Prints the contents of the indiciated messages from your MOO email collection. You get the message numbers for use here by typing the '@mail' command, which prints a table of contents for your entire MOO email collection. If no arguments are given to @read, then the 'current message' in your collection is printed. In any case, the 'current message' after @read finishes is the last one printed.
The most general form of the @read command is
@read <message-sequence> [on *<collection>]
where <message-sequence> is as described in `help message-sequences'.
As with the @mail command you may @read messages on any publically readable collection (child of $mail_recipient).
The @peek command is a variant of @read that works no differently except that it refrains from setting your `current message'. This is useful, for example, if you want to see some particular message on a collection without losing track of where you are in it.