E-mail Encripting Doubt

An easy way to do it

[Rosi CalumCoburnUK]

I was wondering which would be a safe and proper way to encripty an e-mail address on a "contact us" webpage.

[marcs]

Keep the form on a secure server (SSL) and PGP encrypt the email which is sent to you as a result. That should do the trick.

[rogerd]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Rosi. I'm not sure if I understand your question... Are you asking how to encode an e-mail address listed on a website to foil spam e-mail address harvesters?

One of the best ways is not to provide an e-mail address at all; if you provide a form, you can bury the recipient address in the script. Of course, some people don't like to fill out forms and prefer to use e-mail.

Some of the other techniques include substituting unicode for the characters, putting an address in an image (unlinked), and breaking an address into pieces and reassembling it with javascript. None of these is foolproof, but all will reduce the harvesting frequency.