Yes you are asking too much if you want to name each file according to what is in it you would need to do them one at a time and it will take you years. I would just let it name them whatever it wants to name them and then use spotlight to find what you are looking for. Try a batch you will see it works well, just don't delete your original emails until you are satisfied that this will work for you. So far it has worked great for me. Richard On Aug 8, 2005, at 12:14 PM, alexandre wrote: > thanks, richard, i'm getting there… but when i print as pdf, all > the resulting files have the same name (the name of the first mail > in the folder/mailbox). am i missing something? ideally i would > like the pdf to be named according to the subjet of the message. am > i asking too much?! > thanks > > alexandre > :: 12" 867mhz powerbook/ 640mb / 80gb / X.4.2 ::