Moodle in English: Email visible to guests

Email visible to guests

by Wendi Dunlap - Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 6:56 PM

In my courses, the settings "hide email from everyone" or "only display email to students in the same course" are not working at all. Guests can still see the addresses clearly. (Yes, I did double check to make sure I was logged in as a Guest when I was testing this.)

This particular course is supposed to be visible to Google, but I can't activate that until those addresses are hidden.

I have already hacked the format.php page to hide the Participants link from Guests, but they can still get the addresses by clicking on any user's icon, so it's not that good at protecting them.

What is wrong?

I am still running the 1.2beta because it is working so well and 1.3 sounds so close, that I thought I would just jump straight to 1.3 when that one comes along. Has this problem been fixed in the release version of 1.2, maybe?

Thanks!

Re: Email visible to guests

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 8:34 PM

I just tried it with "hide email from everyone" and my guest account can not see the email address, as it always has (and as it should be).

With "only display email to students in the same course" it is currently working as originally intended (showing the email address) but given the new google stuff, I agree it would be better to change this to be hidden from guests. Just done it in CVS.

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Wendi Dunlap - Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 10:49 PM

OK, I checked again, and it looks as if I was confused -- "hide e-mail from everyone" is working OK (I had multiple browsers open, logged into my account and a guest account, so I might have gotten switched around at some point -- yeah, I said I checked and I did, but only on the other option.

), but the "display email to students in course" is showing email to guests, which is, from what you say above, the intended behavior.

I'm glad you are going to change it. It seems non-intuitive to me as it is now, because guests aren't "students in the same course," just visitors. So I didn't realize that was the intended behavior.

Thanks for looking into this! I don't know how to use CVS so I guess I will wait for the next version if it's not a terribly long wait. ;)

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 11:04 PM

1.2.1 is imminent. Hold your breath.

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Re: Email visible to guests

by W Page - Friday, March 26, 2004, 5:50 AM

Hi Martin,

I already upgraded to v1.2.1.

I am glad I cought this thread. Where in Moodle can I make the change to hide Student's e-mail address? I have not been able to locate it.

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Martin Dougiamas - Friday, March 26, 2004, 9:15 AM

Edit their profile, it's in there as "Email display". Note the Admin can always see all email addresses.

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Mike Shields - Saturday, March 27, 2004, 4:20 PM

Is there not a setting or code change that can be performed that allows admin to automatically hide ALL email addresses for students as they self enroll? i.e. hide from guests and other students.

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Re: Email visible to guests

by W Page - Sunday, March 28, 2004, 12:38 AM

Hello All!

That is really what I was referring to. I thought there was a way to do this site-wide or course-wide.

Martin, could this be added as a choice in the Config Variables section of the Admin Page in v1.3?

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Martin Dougiamas - Sunday, March 28, 2004, 10:51 AM

You can change the default value by editing your "user" database table and changing the default value for the "maildisplay" column to "2" (for course-only) or "0" (for no display to anyone).

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Re: Email visible to guests

by W Page - Monday, March 29, 2004, 1:13 AM

Thanks Martin!

I am going to BookMark this thread.

WP1

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Mike Shields - Monday, March 29, 2004, 7:35 PM

The site I am trying to hide all email addresses for, is currently still usuing moodle 1.1

I have tried changing the values and it still shows the email addresses for students.

do I need to upgrade to 1.2.1 in order to perform this task ?

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Martin Dougiamas - Monday, March 29, 2004, 9:08 PM

My tip was only for the default value (for new accounts).

You can do the same thing to all the existing values in that column with a SQL statement like :

UPDATE user SET maildisplay = 2;

Also, note that admins and teachers see the email addreses regardless.

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Re: Email visible to guests

by Wendi Dunlap - Sunday, March 28, 2004, 8:25 AM

I've installed 1.2.1 and the problem is solved! Thanks!

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Re: Email visible to guests

by W Page - Friday, March 26, 2004, 12:16 AM

Hi Martin,

Which file did you update in the CVS?

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Re: Email visible to guests

by W Page - Sunday, March 28, 2004, 1:50 AM

Hello!

Recently, I have been getting returned e-mail messages from "TotalChoiceHosting" that suggest a posting to a forum is spam.

It had this line in the most recent one received today, "X-NOMORESPAM: "verstecktes "viagra"" in BODY"

I do not see any post here with that phrase in it.

I also noted the following,

Using=20Moodle=20->=20Forums=20->=20General=20problems=20->=20Email=20visib=
le=20to=20guests
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Re:=20Email=20visible=20to=20guests
by=20W=20Page=20-=20Sunday,=20=2028=20March=202004,=2012:38=20AM
---------------------------------------------------------------------

so I assume it is coming from this forum.

Whoever it is, could they please fine tune their spam configuration so this does not happen.

Thanks in advance.

WP1

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