diff --git a/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/OdooEditor.js b/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/OdooEditor.js
index 849498e809c74..bbeb1e8f933fa 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/OdooEditor.js
+++ b/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/OdooEditor.js
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ import {
     setCursorStart,
     paragraphRelatedElements,
     isUnbreakable,
+    buildLinkUrl,
 } from './utils/utils.js';
 import { editorCommands } from './commands/commands.js';
 import { Powerbox } from './powerbox/Powerbox.js';
@@ -3310,7 +3311,7 @@ export class OdooEditor extends EventTarget {
             const selectionIsInsideALink = !!closestElement(sel.anchorNode, 'a');
             if (splitAroundUrl.length === 3 && !splitAroundUrl[0] && !splitAroundUrl[2]) {
                 // Pasted content is a single URL.
-                const url = /^https?:\/\//i.test(text) ? text : 'https://' + text;
+                const url = buildLinkUrl(text);
                 const youtubeUrl = this.options.allowCommandVideo &&YOUTUBE_URL_GET_VIDEO_ID.exec(url);
                 const urlFileExtention = url.split('.').pop();
                 const isImageUrl = ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif', 'svg'].includes(urlFileExtention.toLowerCase());
@@ -3399,9 +3400,7 @@ export class OdooEditor extends EventTarget {
             } else {
                 this.historyPauseSteps();
                 for (let i = 0; i < splitAroundUrl.length; i++) {
-                    const url = /^https?:\/\//gi.test(splitAroundUrl[i])
-                        ? splitAroundUrl[i]
-                        : 'https://' + splitAroundUrl[i];
+                    const url = buildLinkUrl(splitAroundUrl[i]);
                     // Even indexes will always be plain text, and odd indexes will always be URL.
                     // only allow images emebed inside an existing link. No other url or video embed.
                     if (i % 2 && !selectionIsInsideALink) {
diff --git a/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/utils/utils.js b/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/utils/utils.js
index 7cd13f10e1471..a0827afed209b 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/utils/utils.js
+++ b/addons/web_editor/static/lib/odoo-editor/src/utils/utils.js
@@ -1591,6 +1591,37 @@ export function makeContentsInline(node) {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Prepends mailto: or https:// if the string matches
+ * the URL regex. Returns the original string if the
+ * the regex does not match or the original string
+ * already contains mailto: or https://.
+ *
+ * If there is already a regex match for the string,
+ * it should be passed here to avoid infinite looping.
+ *
+ * @param {String} string
+ * @param {String} match (optional)
+ * @returns {String}
+ */
+export function buildLinkUrl(string, match) {
+    match = match || URL_REGEX_WITH_INFOS.exec(string);
+    if (!match) {
+        return string;
+    }
+    const matchedString = match[0];
+    const schema = match[2];
+    const isEmail = !schema && matchedString.includes('@');
+    let prefix = '';
+    if (isEmail && !matchedString.startsWith('mailto:')) {
+        prefix = 'mailto:';
+    }
+    if (!isEmail && !schema) {
+        prefix = 'https://';
+    }
+    return prefix + matchedString;
+}
+
 /**
  * Returns an array of url infos for url matched in the given string.
  *
@@ -1602,7 +1633,7 @@ export function getUrlsInfosInString(string) {
         match;
     while ((match = URL_REGEX_WITH_INFOS.exec(string))) {
         infos.push({
-            url: match[2] ? match[0] : 'https://' + match[0],
+            url: buildLinkUrl(string, match),
             label: match[0],
             index: match.index,
             length: match[0].length,