On 2014-09-24 20:56, Steve Purcell writes: > On 24 Sep 2014, at 20:01, Alan Schmitt 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. Alan -- OpenPGP Key ID : 040D0A3B4ED2E5C7