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diff --git a/alot/helper.py b/alot/helper.py
index ad605acb..a8327145 100644
--- a/alot/helper.py
+++ b/alot/helper.py
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ def split_commandline(s, comments=False, posix=True):
"""
splits semi-colon separated commandlines
"""
+ # shlex seems to remove unescaped quotes
+ s = s.replace('\'','\\\'')
# encode s to utf-8 for shlex
if isinstance(s, unicode):
s = s.encode('utf-8')