AutoMailto -- automatically turn e-mail adresses into mailto: links (as in UseMod)
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	Sep 28 2004, 7:18 PM

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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

Version: 1.4.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiPatches/AutoMailto

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Wikinaut created this task.Sep 28 2004, 7:18 PM

Apparently, Bugzilla has this AutoMailto feature already built-in.... look to
this bugreport - I changed severity to "enhancement". Tom

robchur wrote:

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.

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