# Obfuscating mailto:foo@bar.com when importing mail archives

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 11, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/obfuscating-mailto-foo-bar-com-when-importing-mail-archives/193584 "2021-06-11T21:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dachary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dachary/32/119731_2.png) [@dachary](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dachary)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/obfuscating-mailto-foo-bar-com-when-importing-mail-archives/193584/1 "2021-06-11T21:31:00Z")

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Bonjour,

After [a successful import of mail archives](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773) ( **mbox** ), the content of the messages will display email addresses that would have been obfuscated by Gmane or the mailman2 archive server. This allows bots collecting addresses to harvest them in discourse and I’m looking for a way to avoid this.

1. globally removing email in the posts (a display plugin maybe?)
2. some site setting that already does that
3. another idea?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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