When I enter something like email@example.com in a post it becomes a link. How can I disable this for email pattern specifically?

There is no option to disable that behaviour directly. I think it’s controlled by the site setting enable_markdown_linkify, so you could disable this, but then it also disables auto-linking of plain URLs everywhere, not just emails… The backtick solution is the easiest way, unless you want to build…

email@example.com :eyes: You can escape the at sign with a backslash: email\@example.com

How to disable email address auto linkify?

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Bas (Bas van Leeuwen) October 19, 2026, 2:41pm 4

email@example.com

You can escape the at sign with a backslash:
email\@example.com

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How to disable email address auto linkify?

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