On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 23:06 Canada/Eastern, Frank Eves M.D. wrote: > Try using the "Insert Text File…" option from the Applescript menu in > Entourage X and you will better understand my intent. Perhaps I don't understand you. Isn't that exactly what Cricket supplied? Mail.app still requires a lot of work (decent rebuilding routines, a decent archiving utility, etc.) but this can be handled quite adequately by a fairly simple AppleScript, which is precisely what OE and Entourage do -- so I don't see what else you need. f