One of the popular ways to hide your email on a web page from spam bots is to display the email as an image or to use the ‘[at]’ word instead of the ‘@’ sign. The code given here is yet another way to fight spam. The below function will let you to encode email or other links to their equivalent HTML entity encoded syntax. This will enable you to hide your web-page emails from spam bots. As the browser converts and displays the appropriate string from the encoding the user will be able to correctly see the email id, but a spam bot will have a difficult time to decode the encoded string. Of course we now have quite sophisticated crawlers that can work around this types of encoding, but for other crawlers that rely on regular expressions or other such simple methods, they will find it difficult to grab the email links from the page.
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Attractive HTML Email templates
Although my primary interests lie in software development, good design is something I cannot ignore. I quite often need to send HTML emails to clients but have to settle for simple designs due to lack of good templates; and getting someone else to design it ends up taking a lot of time with unsatisfactory results.
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Local email testing of applications
E-mails are a pervasive element of most web applications. But many times testing and debugging emails can become a hassle when many of them are involved. Most of the time you just want to be sure that the email part of your application is working fine, without flooding your mail account with test mails.
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