Obfuscating Email Addresses

Adeline · September 21, 2009, 1:12am

I was wondering if MySource had the functionality to obfuscate email addresses?

Anthony_Barnes · September 21, 2009, 1:54am

Matrix doesn't natively hide email addresses. My favoured method is to avoid presenting the email address as a hyperlink (ie, "myemail at domain dot com") and use javascript to rewrite it into a valid mailto: hyperlink. This method stops most spam spiders from gathering the email address, however not all. The javascript is generally very light to deploy onto a site.

nnhubbard · September 21, 2009, 2:05am

Newer versions of Matrix (can't remember when this was added) can use the %asset_attribute_email_image% keyword to print an image of the users email address rather than text.

Not sure if this would help you, but it is something to look into.

Adeline · September 22, 2009, 3:08am

Thanks for the replies, we are currently using v3.18.8 and I will definitely look into those options.

Mark_Brydon · September 22, 2009, 4:36am

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Thanks for the replies, we are currently using v3.18.8 and I will definitely look into those options.

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I have done a quick search and found that this is included from our 3.20.0 releases. So any of our actively supported releases should see you though.