diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/link.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/link.pm
index 87e06ca89..ef01f1107 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/link.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/link.pm
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use IkiWiki 3.00;
 
 my $link_regexp;
 
-my $email_regexp = qr/^.+@.+$/;
+my $email_regexp = qr/^.+@.+\..+$/;
 my $url_regexp = qr/^(?:[^:]+:\/\/|mailto:).*/i;
 
 sub import {
@@ -73,13 +73,7 @@ sub is_externallink ($$;$) {
 		$url.="#".$anchor;
 	}
 
-	if ($url =~ /$email_regexp/) {
-		# url looks like an email address, so we assume it
-		# is supposed to be an external link if there is no
-		# page with that name.
-		return (! (bestlink($page, linkpage($url))))
-	}
-	return ($url =~ /$url_regexp/)
+	return ($url =~ /$url_regexp|$email_regexp/)
 }
 
 sub externallink ($$;$) {
diff --git a/doc/bugs/emails_should_not_be_considered_as_broken_links.mdwn b/doc/bugs/emails_should_not_be_considered_as_broken_links.mdwn
index 353c3653d..5aad1292a 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/emails_should_not_be_considered_as_broken_links.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/emails_should_not_be_considered_as_broken_links.mdwn
@@ -9,6 +9,4 @@ The [[ikiwiki/directive/brokenlinks]] directive lists emails when used inside [[
 >> and it was easier to make ikiwiki's wikilinks do so too, rather
 >> than put entirely different link handling into creole.
 >>
->> Anyway, I've fixed this, although it leaves some weirdness if a page
->> is created with a name like an email address and that same email address
->> was previously used for external links. [[done]] --[[Joey]] 
+>> Anyway, I've fixed this. [[done]] --[[Joey]]