Okay, because Michael Gmail demanded it, I hereby announce the existence of MessageLaser 0.1, which lets you zap your Mail.app messages with Finder Spotlight tags. MessageLaser 0.1 May 4, 2005, requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) © 2005 Jeff Porten MessageLaser is an AppleScript that allows you to assign arbitrary keywords (also known as "tags") to messages in Mail.app. These keywords are then immediately searchable with Spotlight indexing. <http://www.jeffporten.com/software> Best, jeff