Prevent Junk Email

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lynngrin
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01/24/2008 4:10 AM
Hi John What do you recommend as the most effective method of preventing email addresses from being picked up, for junk mail purposes? Thanks Lynn

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John Mitchell
Posts:3550

01/24/2008 9:28 AM
Hi Lynn, I have a "Mail Cloaker" rule for PageBlaster that hides them from spiders. <rule><ruleName>MailTo Cloaker</ruleName><searchFor>href=['"]?mailto:(\w+[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]*)@(\w+)\.(\w+)['"]?</searchFor><replaceWith>href="javascript:window.location.replace('ma'+'ilto:'+'$1'+'@'+'$2'+'.$3')"</replaceWith></rule>

John Mitchell
Posts:3550

01/24/2008 9:31 AM
Another effective way is to put your e-mail addresses in an image, but that does not make it easy for someone to just click on the link and send an e-mail. You can also use some sort of feedback form that sends e-mail from the site so that you never have to expose the e-mail address directly.

lynngrin
Posts:95

01/24/2008 10:17 AM
Thanks for the swift reply John, I like the ideal of the "Pageblaster Mail Cloaker"

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loadedtechnologies
Posts:4

06/19/2008 6:46 PM
Hey John, I found that this method only works for email addresses s that are non country specific (e.g .com .net .org etc.) - In order for the replace rule to include the country identifier (e.g email@domain.com.au)I have modified the code to look like this: MailTo Cloaker href=['"]?mailto:(\w+[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]*)@(\w+)\.(\w+)([\.a-zA-z]+)['"]? href="javascript:window.location.replace('ma'+'ilto:'+'$1'+'@'+'$2'+'.$3'+'$4')" Hope this helps! Cheers, Ardi

John Mitchell
Posts:3550

06/20/2008 7:54 AM
Excellent, thanks for the improvement Ardi.

koan@koan.at
Posts:1

07/23/2008 11:27 PM
Hey there, the regular expression didn't work for email adresses with '-' in the domain name (like email@my-company.com). So I tried around, because I am not an expert in regular expressions. This worked for me, hope to help. MailTo Cloaker href=['"]?mailto:(\w+[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_])@(\w+[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_])\.(\w+)([\.a-zA-z]+)['"]? href="javascript:window.location.replace('ma'+'ilto:'+'$1'+'@'+'$2'+'.$3'+'$4')" Cheers, Andy

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