Am trying this out with fmp 6 and mail/jaguar -- while there are some hiccups with what appear to be odd formating in some digests, this thing is chewing through several thousand older messages. Had it crash once - out of memory error from Filemaker. Not sure if that was from a bad email, or fmp error, but this does seem to have a lot of potential. Thank you! My only big concern is as we move to Panther in a few days (reason for making backup), will this tool work with the applescripts in Panther and the new version of Mail