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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?
Simon Child
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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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