"[at]" and "[dot]". is used instead of "@" and "."

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I was testing the email feature of the forum.

So I go to a member's profile page who's email is visible and click on the email button. Then my outlook express shows up with something like this at the To: field

jamesyong [at] company [dot] com

The "[at]" and "[dot]". is used instead of "@" and ".". So I have to manually change it to the latter.

Is this a bug?

Thanks and regards,
James Yong
[originally posted on jforum.net by jamesyong]

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No, it is not a but, but indeed an incomplete feature, that I'll need to improve.

I don't want to write the user's email in the regular form, because spammers may use robots to steal the email address and use it to send spam.

What I have in mind is to use a bit of javascript to display the correct email. For example, something like

function Email(address, host) {
    this.address = address.;
    this.host = host;
}

funciton displayEmail(email) {
    return email.address +"@+" email.host;
}

funciton makeMailTo(address) {
    return "mailto:"+ displayEmail(address);
}

....
var john = new Email("john", "yahoo.com);
var rafael = new Email("rafael", "domain.com");
...

<a   rel="nofollow"><script>document.write(displayEmail(rafael));</script></a>

or something like that.

Rafael
[originally posted on jforum.net by Rafael Steil]

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it is now at JIRA as a feature request
[originally posted on jforum.net by jamesyong]