740439 - Allow MailHide for emails

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Mozilla Reps Graveyard :: reps.mozilla.org, task)

Description

[Tanner Filip [:tanner]]

Mailhide is a service that allows you to put your email address behind a reCAPTCHA. The past two days I have been getting spam on both accounts that are on my ReMo portal profile. I think that allowing a URL beginning with http://www.google.com/recaptcha/mailhide for in a profile would help cut back on spam. Mailhide also has an API, so it could be done automatically. See: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/mailhideapi

As an alternative, email addresses could simply not be shown to users who are logged out, like Bugzilla does.

Comment 1

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

Thanks for reporting this Tanner.

I totally understand the problem and that's something we have to deal with. As a first step we already removed (on dev server, soon to land on production) your email addresses from the /people/ page. They are still accessible though, through your personal profile pages. 

The goal is to have your email address accessible be anyone who wants to contact you. Hence showing them only to logged in users defeats the purpose, because only fellow reps would be able to reach you.

Mailhide on the other hand could be a nice alternative. I'll have a look and we'll definitely come up with a solution to avoid spamming your accounts!

Thanks!

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/remo

https://github.com/mozilla/remo/commit/9d43e2e70265bf6c8d35bd1ec7d2e85e8ef31588
Hide emails using MailHide for anonymous users. Fix bug 740439.

https://github.com/mozilla/remo/commit/492b9ffda64d65f080974e8f4d911e9d0b90e2bc
Merge pull request #138 from glogiotatidis/740439-allow-mailhide-for

Hide emails using MailHide for anonymous users. Fix bug 740439.

Comment 3

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified user emails do not display on /people. Personal profiles display emails to logged in users, but not when logged out.