diff --git a/client/src/view-helper.js b/client/src/view-helper.js
index a4da39454c..8f8ada351b 100644
--- a/client/src/view-helper.js
+++ b/client/src/view-helper.js
@@ -387,7 +387,8 @@ define('view-helper', ['lib!marked', 'lib!dompurify'], function (marked, DOMPuri
             }
 
             text = text.replace(
-                /<a href="mailto:(.*)"/gm, '<a href="javascript:" data-email-address="$1" data-action="mailTo"'
+                /<a href="mailto:(.*!\")"/gm,
+                '<a href="javascript:" data-email-address="$1" data-action="mailTo"'
             );
 
             return new Handlebars.SafeString(text);