Thanks a lot. I didnt find it by that name. Its under MS office and tools
as "Digital Certificate for VBA Projects.lnk". Then i did a Google search
and found this great writeup on how to do it, though its pretty
self-explanatory: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/selfcert.htm

Quick follow-up. Is there a way to make the macro run when I hit the delete
key? Right now I have an icon for it on my toolbar but sometimes I hit
delete and then a message is gone forever.

Also, I lifted the code and modified it from a macro someone else wrote so
its probably lousy code on my part. Its quite slow - any ideas on how to
make it faster? I am not a VBA expert - as you can no doubt tell!

Thanks again Michael.