Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:04 UTC
Automatically turn e-mail adresses into mailto: links. I am used to use on UseMod simply to type an address such as tom@wikinaut.de . This will then automatically by rendered as a mailto link. The UseMod page (see URL) shows some details, inter alia the needed substitution regex: s/([A-z0-9-_]+(?:\.[A-z0-9-_]+)*\@[A-z0-9-_]+(?:\.[A-z0-9-_]+)*(?:\.[A-z]{2,})+)/<a href="mailto:$1">$1<\/a>/g; The original contributors on UseMod were <brad@ltc.com>, FerdinandPrantl, DavidAndel . I deeply acknowledge their rights of first filing this great idea/proposal first with UseMod. Tom Berlin
Apparently, Bugzilla has this AutoMailto feature already built-in.... look to this bugreport - I changed severity to "enhancement". Tom
We get enough people plonking their email addresses into wiki pages by mistake as it is. I'm going to WONTFIX this on the grounds that turning email addresses into mailto links automatically is going to attract the other kind of spammer; those who wish to harvest email addresses. It also goes against the common sense rule of "don't post email addresses all over the web".
(In reply to comment #2) > We get enough people plonking their email addresses into wiki pages by mistake > as it is. I'm going to WONTFIX this on the grounds that turning email addresses > into mailto links automatically is going to attract the other kind of spammer; Ok Rob. When I posted this enhancement proposal more than one year ago, I was a "newcomer" to the whole project; I have learnt a lot and fully agree with you now.
