diff --git a/terminator b/terminator
index ca99a620..20b55961 100755
--- a/terminator
+++ b/terminator
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ text/plain
         self.add_matches(lboundry = "\\<", rboundry = "\\>")
     else:
       self.matches['addr_only'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(www|ftp)[" + hostchars + "]*\.[" + hostchars + ".]+(:[0-9]+)?(" + urlpath + ")?" + rboundry + "/?")
-      self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)+" + rboundry)
+      self.matches['email'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + "(mailto:)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]+[.a-z0-9-]*" + rboundry)
       self.matches['nntp'] = self._vte.match_add (lboundry + '''news:[-A-Z\^_a-z{|}~!"#$%&'()*+,./0-9;:=?`]+@[-A-Za-z0-9.]+(:[0-9]+)?''' + rboundry)
 
   def spawn_child (self, event=None):