251581 - Unmunged emails in bug reports leads to email harvesting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120030

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Damien Carbery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8

When a bug report is viewed in Mozilla the email address of anyone who has
changed the bug report is visible as a mailto tag. This makes it very easy for
email addresses to be harvested.
My work email, which I do not use for personal email, has received some amounts
of spam. The only place outside the office that my email is known is in
bugzilla.gnome.org.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Submit a bug
2. View bug.
3. Add comment to bug.
4. View bug.

Actual Results:  
Email address appears of comment submitter appears in a mailto tag.

Expected Results:  
To protect commentators, the email address should be munged, like Yahoo! Groups
does e.g. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/perl-beginner/message/19251
As you can see Randall's email is munged.

I don't know how best to allow legitimate users of the installation of Bugzilla
contact those submitting comments, maybe using Bugzilla and letting it send
emails will suffice.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Gnome is running an outdated Bugzilla.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120030 ***