[support] ASCII encoding email addresses

[Carl Wiedemann]

Consider http://drupal.org/project/invisimail or others listed here
http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid:7266

As much as your admin may cringe at using another Drupal module, do you
anticipate the amount of time spent in-house developing and maintaining a
custom solution will be less than upgrading a widely-used module from time
to time? (If you aren't already, consider using Drush to speed-up your
codebase update workflow http://drupal.org/project/drush)

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM, LESLIE FRIESEN <
FRIESEN.LESLIE at co.polk.or.us> wrote:

>
> Good morning,
>
> We've been receiving an increased amount of Spam recently. One of our
> network admins is asking me to try ASCII-encoding the email addresses that
> display on the website.  I ran a test email address (my own) through an
> online tool that converts it to ascii, and came up with this:
>
>
> &#102;&#114;&#105;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#110;&#046;&#108;&#101;&#115;&#108;&#105;&#101;&#064;&#099;&#111;&#046;&#112;&#111;&#108;&#107;&#046;&#111;&#114;&#046;&#117;&#115;
>
> I then inserted that ascii string into the create link tool in the
> FCKEditor, attaching it to some text.  I've tried input filters of full
> unfiltered html, filtered html and anonymous.
>
> No luck.  If I mouseover on the link, it looks right in the status bar
> below, but if I actually click to send an email, it only displays the "&" in
> the "To" field, and not the rest of the ascii. This throws an error in my
> email client (Groupwise).
>
> You can see the test page at https://www.co.polk.or.us/ascii
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to implement this?  Is the email client
> the problem?  My admin would prefer that I find a way to do it with ascii
> encoding rather than downloading and installing yet another module to keep
> up to date, if at all possible.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Leslie
>
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