Preventing mail to be seen

[Pedja]

Is it possible to set forum to make sure that noone but Administrator is able to see email address of any forum member?

[Owdy]

Yes, but that needs lost of template work. Ther isnt easy setting or similart for that.

[Pedja]

Ouch, that hurts.

It makes SMF spam friendly. I like it very much, and want to replace existing phpBB forum with SMF, but this one problem makes me very nervous. I cannot allow that my users get offended because of this so simple to solve issue.

I will have to wait, if new version of SMF provides some solution.

[!Hachi!]

small solution. i think its easy to hide email from all ,by deleting email links.but only admin well lets hope.i will try if i manage it i will post in package manager but not promise

[Owdy]

Ouch, that hurts.

It makes SMF spam friendly.

No it doesnt. Everyone can hide their adress and admin can hide all of them from guests.

[Pedja]

As long as email adress may be seen by anybody else except Admins and moderators, that is spam friendly. Keeping email confidental is very important requirement nowadays.

Option to hide email exists but:

1. by default, mail is not hidden. It should be hiden until user decides otherwise

2. hiden status of emil cannot be forced to protect people who do not know implications of visible email

3. it is not point to disable mail to user function, but to prevent enyone to be able to se real email addresses

4. SMF already has all the functionality needed, it just has to be used in this particular case, and provide wembmail form instead of plain mailto: link.

Solution is simple.

[Owdy]

1. by default, mail is not hidden. It should be hiden until user decides otherwise

It is asked in registeration. You can hide your mail when you register. Its totally users choise.

[Pedja]

That option should at least be checked by default, but still, user can change it and if he does not know what it is, he isin rouble, especialy, since my users are not aware that email adress can be shown to others.

They are used to that similar option means, do you want to let others to send you email or not, not that it actualy showws email address. They would allow email as they want to be accesible by email, not knowing that it actualy reveals their email.

I realy do not understand, that it is possible that this suggestion is declined in time when email address confidentality is very important issue.

[Owdy]

That option should at least be checked by default

Its very easy to change if you want...

If you want new features, please make feature request. Im happy with how it is now. I can hide adresses from spam robots, thats good enough for me. If user wants to hide his mail from members also, he can do that. I dont see anything wrong here.

[JayBachatero]

In Register.template.php make the following change

Koodi (find) [Valitse] Laajenna


// Are they allowed to hide their email?
if ($context['allow_hide_email'])
echo '
<label for="hideEmail"><input type="checkbox" name="hideEmail" id="hideEmail" class="check" /> ', $txt[721], '</label>';

Koodi (replace) [Valitse] Laajenna


// Are they allowed to hide their email?
if ($context['allow_hide_email'])
echo '
<label for="hideEmail"><input type="checkbox" name="hideEmail" id="hideEmail" class="check" checked /> ', $txt[721], '</label>';

-JayBachatero

[Pedja]

Thanks, I will do the change. Thing is, I plan to use several separate instalations of forum, and I hate to custom mod something that is generaly needed. It just complicates upgrades.

I posted topic here, since I first thought it is me who cannot find where to set this, not that it is missing feature.

Should I repost as feature request, or this topic may be moved there?

[JayBachatero]

You can post it up in the feature request board

It's already in the feature request.

[Jazeker]

In Register.template.php make the following change

Koodi (find) [Valitse] Laajenna


// Are they allowed to hide their email?
if ($context['allow_hide_email'])
echo '
<label for="hideEmail"><input type="checkbox" name="hideEmail" id="hideEmail" class="check" /> ', $txt[721], '</label>';

Koodi (replace) [Valitse] Laajenna


// Are they allowed to hide their email?
if ($context['allow_hide_email'])
echo '
<label for="hideEmail"><input type="checkbox" name="hideEmail" id="hideEmail" class="check" checked /> ', $txt[721], '</label>';

-JayBachatero

Wonderful!  This did the trick!