Gerry Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 I recently published a blog article describing our deployment of Cloudflare to accelerate performance of the Hornbill Platform and Applications. If this is of interest, you can read the article here. https://www.hornbill.com/blogpost/hornbill-network-expanding-global-reach/ Gerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyn Houghton Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 @Gerry Looks like a very positive change, but just one question on the locking down connection via URL. We currently lock down inbound traffic to our corporate Email server for the IMAP mailbox connection based on IP Address. In terms of changing this to URL mapping, should we change this to live.hornbill.com or is there a specific URL we should use for connection coming from the back end server which initiates the connection to the mailbox. Cheers Martyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex8000 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Hi Gerry, Thank you for that blog post, I read it with great interest! I have noticed something strange that may be related to this. If I look at the email hyperlink we send in our emails you can see that the email address has been replaced by an text linking to the following page: https://live.hornbill.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection " The website from which you got to this page is protected by CloudFlare. Email addresses on that page have been hidden in order to keep them from being accessed by malicious bots. You must enable Javascript in your browser in order to decode the e-mail address. " For example, take a look at email 7208 in our instance. See below screenshot of the part of the signature showing the described behaviour. I presume this is only in the browser and only when Javascript is not enabled in the browser? Is this normal behaviour? Thanks, Alex Edit: for some reason the entire thing turned into a hyperlink. Can't seem to get rid of it. Apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 Martyn, Does not effect emails, all the back-end services, API end pointe, mail routing and everything remain unaffected, they all still and will continue to have fixed IP addresses. Gerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 Alex, Yes I believe that CloudFlare puts these protections in place, it does a lot of things. I will need to have someone look into this but I believe once JavaScript is enabled this should work, but we may have to do something about this, thanks for pointing it out. Gerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffreysmith Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 @Alex8000 It does appear to be cloudflare trying to be helpful and rewriting your email addresses to prevent someone scraping them. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170016-What-is-Email-Address-Obfuscation- This feature has now been switched off. Many thanks for reporting the issue and I apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry Posted October 28, 2016 Author Share Posted October 28, 2016 @Alex8000 as you can see from the post above, this was a setting that we had to change, I had a feeling that might be the case. Please let us know if this is not resolved. Gerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex8000 Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Hi @jeffreysmith, @Gerry, The email addresses are visible again. Thank you! Regards, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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