Movalog Plugins

Usage is also equally simple. Email addresses can be trusted and banned at both the system (i.e. affecting all blogs on the system) and blog levels. To trust or ban email addresses at the system level, go to System Overview > Plugins and then click Show Settings for Comment Email Filter. To trust or ban email address at the blog level, go to Blog Settings > Plugins tab and then click Show Settings for Comment Email Filter.

You will be presented with a screen as shown in the screenshot below with two text fields. The first text field should contain a list of all trusted email address - one email address per line. The second text field should contain a list of banned email addresses - one email address per line.

Comment Email Filter uses the feedback rating system introduced in Movable Type 3.2. Each trusted email address is given a score of +10 while each banned email address is given a score of -10. These scores ensure that comments with trusted email addresses are always approved and published while comments with banned email addresses are always junked. However, each email address can be given its own score. If you add a number to the end of a line, it will be interpreted as a score as demonstrated in the screenshot above.

Scores entered into the first text field will always be interpreted as positive scores whilst scores entered into the second text field will always be interpreted as negative scores.

Email addresses can also be trusted or banned via the comment listing and edit comment pages using the pull down menus which will contain two new options, Trust Email Address(es) and Ban Email Address(es). This is highlighted in the two screenshots below.

On the comment listing screen, select all the comments with email addresses you would like to trust or ban and then choose the appropriate action from the pull down menu (at the top or bottom of the screen).

On the comment editing screen, you can trust or ban the email address by selecting the appropriate action from the pull down menu at the bottom of the screen.

Either method will trust or ban the email address on the blog level only and the email address will be given the default score (+10 for trusted and -10 for banned email addresses).