Dear Scripting Friends, I've been noodling around with this, searching the sites for advice, but it's just beyond me. Can you please help? Dan Shockley very kindly sent his Yahoo handler, and I want to pull out the bits that would allow me to click a mailto URL in an Internet Explorer page, and have the mailto URL put on the clipboard, or passed to FileMaker Pro. Here's what I have so far: on open location emailURL set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "mailto:" set theString to item 2 of the text items of emailURL -- get everything after the "mailto:" set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims end open location tell application "FileMaker Pro" activate open alias "my database" do script "New IM from IE" set data of cell "out Email Address [IM]" of current record to theString as string end tell I'm pretty sure the app tell will work, that I can do. But how do I get the mailto URL parsed? Dan's script also has on processMailto(theURL) -- theURLis the mailto URL to send email to and perhaps that's what I need to use? I'm sorry I don't understand the syntax better. Any help would be appreciated. Yours truly, Bucky Edgett