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Email address masking

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  1. Watty
    Member

    Was wondering if it's possible to have GF give the option of masking a user submitted email address for replies (similar to CraigsList.com). If not - any suggestions for a plug-in that might work with GF to allow this?

    Posted 12 years ago on Tuesday January 3, 2012 | Permalink

  2. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    Once your visitor submits an email address to you, you are going to use that somewhere, and you want a randomized email address rather than publishing their email? Where are you going to use this email?

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday January 4, 2012 | Permalink

  4. Watty
    Member

    Chris - I just started a site for lost pets in our community. I'm sure some folks will post their email addy as a form of contacting them (I advise against it for obvious reasons). I was hoping to somehow mask their email address for them so they won't get mega-spammed.

    http://powaypets.com

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday January 4, 2012 | Permalink

  5. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    There is nothing in Gravity Forms that will take care of this, but the link to using Google Apps for your Domain looked promising. Otherwise, you will need to create an email for everyone who leaves an email, then manage that. You will need to map the submitted email address to the private one in any case. Then you need to create that private email, and handle mail delivered there as well.

    There may be a way to do this in WordPress (like private messaging in BuddyPress) but it's not built in to Gravity Forms. You will have to extend the capabilities of WordPress.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday January 5, 2012 | Permalink

  6. Chris Hajer
    Key Master

    If you simply want to prevent scrapers and spammers from grabbing the email address from your listings, you could use this plugin (which I use on every WordPress site I have):
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/obfuscate-email/

    That will prevent most scrapers from grabbing the email addresses. Otherwise, I think BuddyPress would be a possibility, with private messaging. That seems like overkill for this though.

    Posted 12 years ago on Thursday January 5, 2012 | Permalink