diff --git a/mailboxes/folders-lib.pl b/mailboxes/folders-lib.pl
index 55c04a0f6..104f4d3e9 100755
--- a/mailboxes/folders-lib.pl
+++ b/mailboxes/folders-lib.pl
@@ -2553,7 +2553,7 @@ sub disable_html_images
 {
 local ($html, $dis, $urls) = @_;
 local $newhtml;
-while($html =~ /^([\000-\377]*)(<\s*img[^>]*src=('[^']*'|"[^"]*"|\S+)[^>]*>)([\000-\377]*)/) {
+while($html =~ /^([\000-\377]*?)(<\s*img[^>]*src=('[^']*'|"[^"]*"|\S+)[^>]*>)([\000-\377]*)/) {
 	local ($before, $allimg, $img, $after) = ($1, $2, $3, $4);
 	$img =~ s/^'(.*)'$/$1/ || $img =~ s/^"(.*)"$/$1/;
 	push(@$urls, $img) if ($urls);