diff --git a/_plugins/hook_email_protect.rb b/_plugins/hook_email_protect.rb
index a7d86ef3c94db8c15eec9bbdba40b731bf7ba270..62075a722994c49c20b62e32a2f172c47e5c989c 100644
--- a/_plugins/hook_email_protect.rb
+++ b/_plugins/hook_email_protect.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Jekyll::Hooks.register([:pages, :posts, :documents], :pre_render) do |post|
   include Jekyll::EmailProtect::EmailProtectionFilter
 
   # Using a simpler version of email regexp
-  email_regexp = /mailto\:(?:[\'\"]*)(?:[\w+\-]\.?)+@[a-z\d\-]+(?:\.[a-z]+)*\.[a-z]+(?:[\'\"]*)/i
+  email_regexp = /mailto\:(?:[\w+\-]\.?)+@[a-z\d\-]+(?:\.[a-z]+)*\.[a-z]+/i
 
   # Take post's content, and transform every occurence of the following regexp (an email)
   post.content = post.content.gsub(email_regexp) {