How to remove sender email from archive
In the archive view the second line is the sender, name and email address.
Is it possible to block this/ hide the email address please? I'm getting complaints that people won't use the list because of spam risks?
TIA
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Dave Pawson wrote:
In the archive view the second line is the sender, name and email address.
Is it possible to block this/ hide the email address please? I'm getting complaints that people won't use the list because of spam risks?
If ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS = Yes (the default), the address is mildly obscured ('@' is changed to ' at ' not only here, but in the message bodies too), and the mailto: link behind it is to the list, not to the sender.
If this is not sufficient, you can always make the archive private and it will not be publicly available on the web. Then if you really need a public archive, you could archive your list with, e.g., <http://www.mail-archive.com/>.
Further obfuscation of the sender address in the pipermail archive would require source code modification.
Note that this is controversial amongst users, but many spam researchers believe that the risk of being spammed as a result of your address being in a public archive, even unobfuscated, is very small. Of course, if your users don't accept that, it doesn't matter.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 22 September 2010 15:52, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
If ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS = Yes (the default), the address is mildly obscured ('@' is changed to ' at ' not only here, but in the message bodies too), and the mailto: link behind it is to the list, not to the sender.
If this is not sufficient, you can always make the archive private and it will not be publicly available on the web. Then if you really need a public archive, you could archive your list with, e.g., <http://www.mail-archive.com/>.
I'm getting complaints with the 'at' form Mark. If the archive is set to private, is it still created, just visible to the list admin?
Further obfuscation of the sender address in the pipermail archive would require source code modification.
Understood.
Note that this is controversial amongst users, but many spam researchers believe that the risk of being spammed as a result of your address being in a public archive, even unobfuscated, is very small.
I'm surprised at that.
Thanks for the feedback. Making the archive private sounds about right.
regards
-- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
Dave Pawson wrote:
I'm getting complaints with the 'at' form Mark. If the archive is set to private, is it still created, just visible to the list admin?
If the archive is private, it is created just the same, but it is only accessible via the 'private' CGI URL and requires login with either the list admin or moderator password or a member address and password.
Thus, it is accessible to list members, but not non-members, search engines and the like.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dave Pawson wrote:
I'm getting complaints with the 'at' form Mark. If the archive is set to private, is it still created, just visible to the list admin?
You can set the archive to be either public, viewable to members ownly, or viewable only by the list admins.
Geoff.
Geoff Shang wrote:
You can set the archive to be either public, viewable to members ownly, or viewable only by the list admins.
I think you are confusing the list archives with the roster (membership list). The roster can be set to be viewable by anyone, by members and admins or by admins only, but archives are only public or private. Public archives are viewable by anyone and private archives are viewable by members and admins.
Of course, you can impose other controls via your web server, but many list owners do not have this ability.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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