Hello Steve,

On 2014-09-25 08:14, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

> On 2014-09-24 20:56, Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com> writes:
>
>> On 24 Sep 2014, at 20:01, Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This was the case here: the string returned by the AppleScript had
>>> quotes (and it still does).
>>> 
>>> For instance, with the message you mention, the call to
>>> org-as-get-selected-mail returns this (doing a debug):
>>> 
>>> Result: "\"message://2.b2af716655bbac583727@NY-WEB01::split::Private beta invitation for Emacs Q&A site - Area 51 - Stack Exchange\””
>>
>>
>> I definitely don’t get quotes in the result of org-as-get-selected-mail.
>
> …
>
>> Not sure how to proceed, then…
>
> It seems that the difference is with getting quotes or not. How about
> changing org-as-get-selected-mail to make sure there is no quote? We
> could for instance test whether the first and last characters are
> quotes, and remove them if they are.

Would this work for you?

Alan