Announcing Comment Email Filter

By Arvind Satyanarayan on | Filed under Plugins » Comment Email Filter | Comments (4)

I'm extremely pleased to announce the successor to the Email Whitelister and Blacklister plugins today, Comment Email Filter. This new plugin rolls its predecessors into one and introduces several oft-requested features including:

  • Give each email address its own score
  • Only accept comments with trusted email addresses
  • Easily trust/ban comments from the comment listing and comment editing screens.
  • A conditional template tag that will evaluate as true if the comment has a trusted email address

If you use Movable Type Enterprise, you will also see a new tab on the Commenters screen called Email Filter which will show a new (and hopefully easier to use) interface for listing and adding trusted/banned email addresses.

Comment Email Filter is free for personal users. Commercial and Movable Type Enterprise users can download a fully function 30 day evaluation copy after which you will need to purchase the appropriate license.

4 Comments

Karl Elvis MacRae said:
on Oct 2, 2006 3:28 AM | Reply

Will this new plugin use existing white/black list data or do I need to move my data over if I'm using white/blacklists?

Arvind Satyanarayan said:
on Oct 2, 2006 8:45 AM | Reply

Sorry, I should've mentioned that. Data from the Email Whitelister/Blacklister plugins will need to be migrated into Comment Email Filter's settings. It shouldn't be too hard, instead of commas, you need to put each email on its own line.

Noel Green said:
on Dec 16, 2006 9:39 PM | Reply

I can't get your "email" thing to work to find out how to download the Comment Email Filter. It's not going to my junk box either... I'm simply not getting it.

Thanks in advance!

_ram-jaane' said:
on Aug 14, 2007 9:46 PM | Reply

A suggestion of something to add perhaps: It would be useful to have different settings for each blog if you have multiple blogs.

Currently I have another very limited blog where I have stripped out absolutely everything except one page, which I use as a contact form. For this one I would prefer it didn't junk untrusted email addresses, though for my main blog I would.

I may have a workaround, but just a thought.