diff --git a/addons/mass_mailing/static/src/js/mass_mailing.js b/addons/mass_mailing/static/src/js/mass_mailing.js
index 3785cf87070..e2bcb8a09ad 100644
--- a/addons/mass_mailing/static/src/js/mass_mailing.js
+++ b/addons/mass_mailing/static/src/js/mass_mailing.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 odoo.define('mass_mailing.mass_mailing', function (require) {
 
 var core = require('web.core');
+var FieldTextHtml = require('web_editor.backend').FieldTextHtml;
 var KanbanRecord = require('web_kanban.Record');
 var KanbanView = require('web_kanban.KanbanView');
 
@@ -25,4 +26,21 @@ KanbanView.include({
     },
 });
 
+FieldTextHtml.include({
+    get_datarecord: function() {
+        /* Avoid extremely long URIs by whitelisting fields in the datarecord
+        that get set as a get parameter */
+        var datarecord = this._super();
+        if (this.view.model === 'mail.mass_mailing') {
+            // these fields can potentially get very long, let's remove them
+            var blacklist = ['mailing_domain', 'contact_list_ids'];
+            for (var k in blacklist) {
+                delete datarecord[blacklist[k]];
+            }
+            delete datarecord[this.name];
+        }
+        return datarecord;
+    },
+});
+
 });
diff --git a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/backend.js b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/backend.js
index fa962cfd75f..de1d937d7ac 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/backend.js
+++ b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/backend.js
@@ -220,9 +220,12 @@ var FieldTextHtml = widget.extend({
         this.$translate = $();
         return def;
     },
+    get_datarecord: function() {
+        return this.view.get_fields_values();
+    },
     get_url: function (_attr) {
         var src = this.options.editor_url || "/web_editor/field/html";
-        var datarecord = this.view.get_fields_values();
+        var datarecord = this.get_datarecord();
 
         var attr = {
             'model': this.view.model,
@@ -269,7 +272,6 @@ var FieldTextHtml = widget.extend({
 
         delete datarecord[this.name];
         src += "&datarecord="+ encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(datarecord));
-
         return src;
     },
     initialize_content: function() {
@@ -384,4 +386,9 @@ core.form_widget_registry
     .add('html', FieldTextHtmlSimple)
     .add('html_frame', FieldTextHtml);
 
+return {
+    FieldTextHtmlSimple: FieldTextHtmlSimple,
+    FieldTextHtml: FieldTextHtml,
+};
+
 });