Invisimail does not works out-of-the-box, but...

I'm having no luck getting Invisimail to work. Thanks for the info above as the documentation with the module does not help much.

Using Filtered HTML input format, enabled invisimail, moved to the top on rearrange tab, set to automatically create links and with both javascript options tried. None of these will encode the email addresses and with JS turned on I even lose the email address entirely sometimes.

I also want email addresses encoded in cck fields (http://drupal.org/project/email - which is how I got there in the first place) and that does not seem to work either. Adding a space before and after the email address is a no-go for me as it's a field - I can't expect users to do that when submitting, and I cannot even get that to work anyway.

Is there something I am missing here, or am I expecting the module to do something that it actually doesn't?

Thanks.

(Drupal 5.3, latest release versions of cck, email, invisimail)

Hope I'm not hijacking the thread, but I just wanted to share my experience & updates to the community.

I also have trouble getting invisimail to work correctly. I'm not sure, but I think the

<a href="#" onclick="jQuery(this).attr('href','&#109;&#97;&#105;'+'&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;'+'&#116;&#101;&#115;&#116;&#64;'+'&#101;&#120;&#97;&#109;&#112;&#108;&#101;&#46;'+'&#99;&#111;&#109;');return true;" onmouseover="jQuery(this).html('&#116;&#101;&#115;&#116;&#64;'+'&#101;&#120;&#97;&#109;&#112;&#108;&#101;&#46;'+'&#99;&#111;&#109;');return true;"  >&#116;&#101;&#115;&#116;&#64;<span style='display:none'> </span>&#101;&#120;&#97;&#109;&#112;&#108;&#101;&#46;<span style='display:none'> </span>&#99;&#111;&#109;</a> 

Good point, it's somewhat hidden. Provided the spam parser can decode the char encoding (not hard to do I imagine), it would see the output as the code above. definitely not infallible, but it's better than nothing.

It would have to remove the tags...not sure really how likely that is. I think the jQuery part is pretty ok, since most of the strings are broken off with '+' and href is not at a typical location for the parser.

A better solution, for instance, would be to use images instead of trying to hide the e-mail w/ the tags. For my needs, using images generated from 3rd party website works. But if someone wants a more generic approach, they can include a set of images (one of each char & punc) and link to those dynamically instead.

Or if the user don't mind, they can expand the e-mail in the innerHtml. ie. test[AT]example[dot]com

Invisimail does not works out-of-the-box and totally lacks the Email Field support... beceuse it is implemented as sub-filter of the Text format.
It took me a while to figure out how to get it to work. But I got it as I understood the main idea:
Invisimail performs email encoding by processing the submitted content text by filter that is configured inside the Text Formats.
I had a drupal site, w/ content type configured to have an Email Field. I've installed the Invisimail and nothing happened. There is no How-to-enable explanation on the module page. After some searching I figured out that Text Format needs to be configured to get obfuscation to work but... There is no option in Email Field to process the contents with Text Format filters !

So the Invisimail enabling sequence for my Drupal 7 site was:

1. In the content type: Duplicate Email field by simple Text field w/ Text processing option set to Filtered text.
2. In Configuration » Content authoring » Text formats » Plain text: enable Encode email addresses: Javascript-wrapped HTML entities and reorder it to be the last filter.
3. In Content: edit every entity that includes e-mails and copy the email addresses from Email field to the new Text field, configured to Plain text.
4. In the content type:delete old Email Field w/ all the contents.
5. In Views (if you showing the email using Fields as Show Format): readd the newly created text email field to Fields section.

Edit: Instead of Plaint text you can choose any other Text Format. The point is to enable Invisimail formatter on Text Format you going to use to edit the content.
And it's recommended to check "Automatically create links from email addresses" in Filter settings when you configuring your Text Format.

PaulBunkey: No, that's completely wrong. There is a *formatter* provided by invisimail for the Email field, which should work. You absolutely should NOT be changing everything to Plain Text.

I'm sorry that my post has gotten wrong. Of course you shouldn't change the Text Format of things to Plain text. What I wanted to say is that you absolutely must to set the Text processing of a field containing an e-mail to "Filtered text (user selects text format)" in "Manage fields". And then you must enable invisimail formatter on the Text format you are using on your email-containing field.
Another point I've mentioned that Email Field can not be filtered with Text Formats and Invisimail can't process that kind of fields.

Wrong again. You do not use text formats on email fields, period, at all. Invisimail provides a formatter to do so instead. You configure it on the Display Fields tab.

The code for it is right here: http://drupalcode.org/project/invisimail.git/blob/2aebe0c43caca0947e093f...

Yep. I was wrong about Email Field, it can be configured to use Invisimail.
But how could I discover this fact at the earlier stages of site development ? In this thread you can see the Invisimail learning process:

1. I need emails to be displayed on my site.
2. I've installed Email Field.
3. The Email Field is not spam bot proof out of the box.
4. I found Invisimail - it's description sounds promising.
5. I've installed the Invisimail and nothing happens.
6. I search the internet to get it to work. Many people couldn't get Invisimail to work.
7. Found this issue discussing.
8. I see that I need to enable Invisimail formatter on Text Format I use.
9. I can't use Text Formats on Email Field, but on regular Text field it is possible.
10. Many changes to my site and I got it to work.
11. I contribute to Drupal community, I share my solution.
12. I receive comment that not 100% is right in the sequence, and I fix things.
13. BAM! Another comment makes me discover how to get Email Field to display Invisimail encoded email *facepalm*

Is it possible to publish clear instructions HOW TO MAKE INVISIMAIL TO WORK ? I bet many people will appreciate that.

Note that you need to ensure that the filter is below the HTML corrector, otherwise the encoding is translated back to standard HTML!

The order of importance (in Drupal 7) was:

1. Pathologic
2. HTML Corrector
3. Invisimail

So how do I get this working. It was indeed working out of the box in D6. In D7 Email field is a requirement to get it working? I have CKEdtior on my site. Might this be the problem? The only thing I understood from the posts above is that they are supposted to be wrong. Is there the some kind of step by step process? I would love to use Invisimail. Any help will be appreciated.

Yeah, I got it. Post #12 was the solution. I had the HTML corrector doing his job after invisimailing. Stupid me. :(

So you can configure invisimal 7.x-1.1 at this (and maybe more) places:

I.: admin/config/content/formats/[text_format] ([text_format] example: "Full HTML")

Set the "Encode email addresses: Javascript-wrapped HTML entities" checkbox.

Working filter order example:
1. "Convert line breaks into HTML (i.e. br and p)"
2. "Correct faulty and chopped off HTML"
3. "Encode email addresses: Javascript-wrapped HTML entities"
4. "Convert URLs into links"

Don't forget the vertical tabs at the bottom: set the "Automatically create links from email addresses" and set the "Break up text for filtering" also.

II.: admin/structure/types/manage/[content_type]/display (a content type with Email Field)

Set the added email field's format to "Invisimail: Javascript-wrapped HTML entities", and then go to settings (near "hello world" :))) and set "Automatically create links from email addresses.". Then click "Update".

III.: admin/structure/views/view/[view_name]/edit/page for a Views generated page, go to the added email field settings, and set Formatter to "Invisimail: Javascript-wrapped HTML entities", and then set "Automatically create links from email addresses".

IV. And - of course - if you want Invisimail working in a custom block or elsewhere, set the "Text format" to [text_format] (see I.)

7.x-1.x still doesn't have a README.txt, the information in #12 and #16 is very valuable and should be included in there I think.

In my case, the following filter order worked for Filtered HTML:

1. Limit allowed HTML tags (if this is after the invisimail filter it will eliminate the script tags)
2. Correct faulty and chopped off HTML (this seems to undo "Convert line breaks into HTML" if placed after it)
3. Convert line breaks into HTML
4. Encode email addresses: Javascript-wrapped HTML entities
5. Convert URLs into links

The relevant instructions in this email needs to be put into official documentation somewhere, in a README file, and as documentation on drupal.org. Until then, this bug is not really fixed. ;-)

I learned this the hard way:

Dont stare at the source through the chrome of firefox inspectors. They do not show the invisimailed address

Check the real source of the page.

Good luck!

Just want to highlight batigolix's #19 posts.

Do not look up the email address using Inspector or Firebug.

Open the sites SOURCE CODE!!

#17 works for me, thanks.

Used Invisimail in the content of a block.

It was not working for me, mails were obfiscated ... untill I enabled (configuration > performance) "Aggregate and compress CSS files"