The variable theMessages is set to messages of mailbox X of application Mail. After executing part of an applescript theMessages contains one item. That one item has two mail attachments. The following part of the script saves the attachments and tranfers them to a folder. try repeat with theMessage in theMessages repeat with theAttachment in theMessage's mail attachments set theFileName to (folder02_alias as string) & theAttachment's name try save theAttachment in theFileName on error errorMsg number errorNum display dialog ("Error number " & errorNum as string) & ": " & errorMsg & return & "Iets mis met opslaan." end try end repeat end repeat on error errorMsg number errorNum display dialog "An error occurred." & return & errorMsg & return & "Het foutnummer is: " & (errorNum as string) & " Iets mis met naamgeving en verplaatsing." end try At this point I get two results: 1) the attachments are saved with appropriate names; 2) A message: NSInternalScriptError (8). Upon inspection of the properties of item 1 of theMessages it turns out that the error is associated with 'background color'. As far as I know I have nothing done with background color. How to avoid this error in the scripting support of Mail? Jef Slangen [log in to unmask] vr gr jls