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11 years 4 months ago #1347 by binita
Email Spam was created by binita
Hi Olivier,

I am using this component on instem.res.in/people/academic-staff ..

I had enabled emails with email obfuscation option but facing lot of spam mail issue. So ultimately I had to disable the emails from the website.

I want to actually modify all the email addresses like
mca dot binita at gmail.com ([email protected])
to prevent spam mail.

Can you please let me know where to modify the code to implement the same?

Awaiting your answer...

Regards,
Binita

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11 years 4 months ago #1348 by admin
Replied by admin on topic Re: Email Spam
Hello Binita,
I am surprised you are getting spam when you obfuscate the email addresses. Trombinoscope Extended uses exactly the same code used by Joomla! to do so.
You can find the code in components/ com_trombinoscopeextended / helpers/ trombinoscopeextended.php around line 256.
If you need to do so in the module also, please let me know.
Olivier.

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11 years 4 months ago #1349 by binita
Replied by binita on topic Re: Email Spam
Hi Olivier,

thanks much for your reply.
I was also very surprised when heard about this but obfuscation is not that effective in spamming as I got lot of complains from scientists that they are getting spam mails and I had to remove email ids from the website.

I think, replacing "." and "@" is the most reliable option (You can add this as feature :-) ) as of now so I am going ahead with that.

Regards,
Binita

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11 years 4 months ago #1351 by admin
Replied by admin on topic Re: Email Spam
Hi Binita,
thanks for your suggestion.
Obfuscation is probably not 100% efficient as spammers always find way to get to people's emails.
With do respect, I also think the scientists who complained about spam mail may have gotten them from other avenues as well, not necessarily from your website...
Olivier.

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