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Protecting Email Addresses [message #22349]

Sat, 29 January 2005 12:15

srchild

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I'm using maillist.php to synchronise mailing lists with forums and that works great.

But an issue is that when a mailing list user quotes a previous message in the usual way then that message may contain the email address of the previous poster and this then becomes exposed on the forum.

I've switched off read access for anonymous users, to stop spammers harvesting email addresses from my forums. But I wonder whether there is some way to strip out these addresses from incoming messages using e.g. the body mangling regex. Of course I could simply experiment with this, but I wonder whether anyone has already done this and has some useful code to share
That would clean email addresses out of future incoming messages. Is there a way to remove email addresses from old messages already in the archive? It sounds like playing with the forum message file msg_1 is a bit risky because of issues with changing the length of messages?

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Re: Protecting Email Addresses [message #22354 is a reply to message #22349]

Sat, 29 January 2005 18:45

Ilia

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If you are using a recent version of FUDforum, if you view the HTML source you'll see that the e-mail addresses are encoded in such as way as to throw off most automatic e-mail harvesters.

Mailing list functionality allows you to specify regular expression filter that can be applied on the bodies of imported messages. You could use this functionality to strip e-mail addresses for example.

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