Problems with SpamBotEmailProtector v1.01 (latest)

Hi,

As I had FTP details for this site I was able to investigate the problem on the server directly.

To fix this problem I had to change the following settings in spambotEmailProtector.php.

$GLOBALS['SEP_ENCODING_METHODS']['comments']    = false;
$GLOBALS['SEP_ENCODING_METHODS']['tags']        = false;

Thanks!

Greg

Thank Greg

I just tested yahoo.ca webmail, and it works great.  Now on to Outlook....

Ok, confirmed, Outlook works also!

Tx Greg!

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the feedback.

I've upgraded the add-ons page to show the current version as 2.01.  It was a typo - v1.xx was a standalone, not CMSB plugin version. And I've set the following as defaults for the next version:

$GLOBALS['SEP_ENCODING_METHODS']['comments']    = false;
$GLOBALS['SEP_ENCODING_METHODS']['tags']        = false;

The HTML that the plugin generates is valid, but we're at the mercy of changing standards of the various browsers, email programs, and mailto handlers.  In the case of yahoo webmail, they must have an app or something that registers itself for mailto: links.  Do you know what is it?  If so let me know and I'll make a note to test it next time we update the plugin.

Thanks!

Hi Dave and Greg,

You may want to change the filename of the download for SpamBotEmailProtector to "2.01".  It's stated as such in the forum, and on the description for the add-on page, BUT when someone downloads the file the filename reads "1.01".  Without opening it a purchaser might think it's the wrong version. Thanks!

Hi equinox,

Good call, I've renamed the file.  

Thanks! :)

So, how did you know which ones to change to "false"?

Hi equinox,

>So, how did you know which ones to change to "false"?

It was an educated guess.  The various methods all do different things to encode the email address.  Say this is an email: example@example.com

I believe 'comments' adds random comment tags: exa<!-- wedhg ->mpl<!-- wedwed -->e@exa<!-- wedwdw -->mple.com

And tags does something like this: exam<i></i>ple@exam<b></b>ple.com

So I just disabled the ones that I guessed were causing trouble for Yahoo Mail.

The email clients, browsers and web mail services are always changing how they interpret html content so it's a bit of a cat and mouse game sometimes.

Cheers,

Okay, that makes some sense to me.  I actually ran into the same problem on a site and just couldn't figure it out...and I was using the same html code as on other sites. But turning those 2 elements to 'false' fixed it...but on my end it had nothing to do with yahoo mail.