Hello, Please find attached a small patch to org-mac-link.el for the functions creating links to messages in Mail.app. The problem was that calling the org-mac-message-insert-selected would always add a spurious first link with empty url and an escaped quote as text. It would also leave another escaped quote at the end of the text of the real link. The patch makes sure that no extra empty line is created during the AppleScript call, and removes the escaped quotes around the whole value returned from AppleScript. I have left the code that removes additional quotes around individual links if they are there, but I don't think it's needed (I don't see how they could occur there). Best, Alan