Read email message with AppleScript

Hi!
I just used this tip to remotely sleep my MacBook Pro:
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/04/07/applescript-control-your-mac-with-an-e-mail/
Now I would like that when the message comes with the subject as System and the text as Read an applescript would read what I wrote after that.
Example:
From: Me
Subject: System
Text: Sleep
-> The computer runs applescript sleep and sleeps (so far it's working)
From: Me
Subject: System
Text: Read
-> The computer runs applescript read (that's the problem)
How do I point the AppleScript to the received message and make it start reading?
Is there a way to also unlock the screen (screensaver uses password)?
Tank-you in advance for any help!

The trick here (and the part that TUAW doesn't cover in that article) is that when a Mail rule triggers an AppleScript it passes a list of relevant messages to the script.
Once you have that it's easy to act upon the message content.
So instead of the simple shutdown script you write something more like:
using terms from application "Mail"
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