On Sunday, 22 May 2005, Christian Roth, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
thoughtfully composed the following:

>I'm struggling now already for hours with something I thought should be
>really easy:
>
>How do I copy the body text of a message that is selected in PowerMail's
>message browser to the system's clipboard?
>
>This does not work:
>
>tell application "PowerMail"
> activate
>       set msg to the first message of current messages
>       set theText to the content of msg
>       set the clipboard to (theText as string)
>end tell


I did a little more testing, and I figured out (which I really should
have done sooner) that you need to put parentheses around the property, e.g:

set msg to the 1st item of (current messages)

HTH more,

Marcus
-- 
Marcus Jarrett, Adelaide, South Australia.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts.

-Bertrand Russell




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