At 13:04 -0400 18/08/2011, Bill Steele wrote: >Getting the text of an incoming message in Apple Mail is pretty >straightforward (albeit not intuitive): > >tell application "Mail" >set mySel to selection >set Msg to item 1 of mySel >set msgText to content of Msg >end tell > >(Why those lines won't combined escapes me) Probably because you tried ...item 1 of selection..., which would have worked in the old days but not under the new order. tell application "Mail" set _msg_body_as_text to content of item 1 of (get selection) end tell >Works fine most of the time, but every so often I hit a message >where the result is > >"?" What do you get if you ask for 'source' rather than 'content', which gives you a plain text conversion of the message body? JD