diff --git a/mu4e/mu4e-view.el b/mu4e/mu4e-view.el
index 0b98a7bd..4026b664 100644
--- a/mu4e/mu4e-view.el
+++ b/mu4e/mu4e-view.el
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ The first letter of NAME is used as a shortcut character.")
   "A map of some number->url so we can jump to url by number.")
 
 (defconst mu4e~view-url-regexp
-  "\\(\\(https?\\://\\|mailto:\\)[-+a-zA-Z0-9.?_$%/+&#@!~,:;=/()]+\\)"
+  "\\(\\(https?\\://\\|mailto:\\)[-+a-zA-Z0-9.?_$%/+&#@!*~,:;=/()]+\\)"
   "Regexp that matches http:/https:/mailto: URLs; match-string 1
   will contain the matched URL, if any.")