At 7:25 pm -0400 20/6/06, you wrote:

>This is odd, if I use the optional parameter to open the window of 
>the forwarded message it does create the forwarded message. However, 
>there's no way to reference it or any part of it.
>
>set vMessageToForward to (forward vSomeMessage with opening window)
>
>My conclusion is the forward and redirect commands are broken.

I doubt if they ever weren't.  Mail used to have its own Scripts menu 
but they removed it when they realised that nobody had yet managed to 
write a useful script for Mail.  I say this only to encourage one of 
the few people on this list who use Mail to sing the praises of its 
aete and solve your problem. :-)

JD