Re: show hidden email

Posted by GregChapman on Jun 12, 2014; 1:47am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/show-hidden-email-tp7590482p7590484.html

There's no need to see an address, if you are reading it via the Nabble. You just click on the "Hidden email" link and you'll be taken to a screen where you can send an email to that address. (In those circumstances your address will be revealed to the recipient and you can carry on communicating via email.)

You forget that Nabble is public and is spidered by search engines and others with less honourable motives, so it is important to cloak any email address to prevent the address being harvested by spammers and other evil folk.

Email can't be spidered in the same way. People who use mail lists reveal their own address and are therefore traceable so there is not the same risk. This is why it is acceptable not to cloak address in email. Indeed it is against Internet protocols. These require that not just return addresses is included in (normally hidden) header lines, but also the entire delivery route the message took to reach you, and much more (such as the precise brand and version of the software you use to write your email).