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beholder

Sep 23 2003, 02:37 PM

I am trying to get MT to make my name (as the post's author) a mailto: link. I know there is a way to tell MT to do this automatically, so every e-mail gets the post's name as the subject. How do I do that? (see example at www.dailee.com)

girlie

Sep 23 2003, 02:46 PM

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<a href="mailto:<$MTEntryAuthorEmail spam_protect="1"$>?subject=<MTEntryTitle>"><MTEntryAuthor></a>

beholder

Sep 23 2003, 03:50 PM

Thanks girle, I am just done playing with it myself and here is what I did:

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Posted by <a href ="mailto:shay@cheezcake.net?subject=<$MTEntryTitle$>"><$MTEntryAuthor$></a> at...

and it seem to work fine.. what's the spam_protect thing? why should it be set to 1?

girlie

Sep 23 2003, 05:32 PM

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If the spam_protect attribute is provided, the email address will be modified so as to prevent spambots from harvesting it. The web browser, however, will still display the email address properly. For example, if the email address is foo@bar.com, and you use

<$MTEntryAuthorEmail spam_protect="1"$>

the email address will be displayed as foo@bar.com.

beholder

Sep 23 2003, 05:39 PM

Ok, adding it up.. thanks..

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