Re: Remove "Send Email" option with NAML

Posted by GregChapman on Sep 08, 2014; 11:00am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Remove-Send-Email-option-with-NAML-tp7591364p7591367.html

You need to edit the "profile_header" macro. However, I would caution against doing a blanket removal of that code segment and suggest that you make it conditional so that Administrators will continue to see the option. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to advise on how to do that.

However, your request begs the question... What exactly is the concern about a user privately revealing their address to another forum user?

Bare in mind these factors:
• Anyone who wishes to remain anonymous can always change their Nabble registered address to one that can be used for that forum only and abandoned at any time.
• When using the User Profile screen ordinary users cannot see the address to which an email is sent.
• A user's registered email address is kept secret to all except forum administrators, who are the only ones who see it on a user's Profile page.
• What is sent by Nabble from a user's Profile screen is a true email. In consequence the sender's registered address will be  revealed in the recipient's email program, but the sender does not know to what address it is sent. This has the big advantage that the recipient doesn't not have to be constantly checking a forum just in case they have been PMed and reduces the likelihood that that someone would maliciously start PM communication.

Of course this last factor does mean that if the recipient then replies, the message goes straight to the original poster's email address and, as you would expect when sending any email, that email will reveal the sender's email address, but it's their choice whether they do this and they could always use an address they are prepared to abandon too.

In short, Nabble does NOT offer a "PM" service where users can hide behind anonymous forum usernames, but all a user needs to do is use a temporary abandonable address.

• Simply having email contact disallowed could force your users to share information that might be best kept private and that has security implications for them.
• Posting information on the forum that may be best sent privately can lead to flame wars and generally be disruptive to the conduct of your forum.