diff --git a/phpgwapi/inc/class.translation.inc.php b/phpgwapi/inc/class.translation.inc.php
index 1d456d295b..33d6b81f28 100644
--- a/phpgwapi/inc/class.translation.inc.php
+++ b/phpgwapi/inc/class.translation.inc.php
@@ -1038,11 +1038,14 @@ class translation
 	static function replaceEmailAdresses(&$text)
 	{
 		//error_log($text);
+		//replace CRLF with something other to be preserved via preg_replace as CRLF seems to vanish
+		$text = str_replace("\r\n",'<#cr-lf#>',$text);
 		// replace emailaddresses eclosed in <> (eg.: <me@you.de>) with the emailaddress only (e.g: me@you.de)
 		$text = preg_replace("/(<|&lt;a href=\")*(mailto:([\w\.,-.,_.,0-9.]+)(@)([\w\.,-.,_.,0-9.]+))(>|&gt;)*/ie","'$2 '", $text);
 		$text = preg_replace('~<a[^>]+href=\"(mailto:)+([^"]+)\"[^>]*>~si','$2 ',$text);
 		$text = preg_replace("/(([\w\.,-.,_.,0-9.]+)(@)([\w\.,-.,_.,0-9.]+))( |\s)*(<\/a>)*( |\s)*(>|&gt;)*/ie","'$1 '", $text);
 		$text = preg_replace("/(<|&lt;)*(([\w\.,-.,_.,0-9.]+)@([\w\.,-.,_.,0-9.]+))(>|&gt;)*/ie","'$2 '", $text);
+		$text = str_replace('<#cr-lf#>',"\r\n",$text);
 		return 1;
 	}