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