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#6887 – Why is my 'mailto' link being captured as a 404?

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Friday, 24 January 2020 13:41 UTC

dwilson-docufi-com

In the 404 section I'm seeinig a mailto link that consistently has the highest number of hits. However based on the link it appears to be comming from the main page. The only mailto link I have is on the 'Contact Us' page. What are some of the recommended tactics and strategies in hunting down these links on my site.

I'm saying 'my' site but I am really a developer and am working on this site, trying to harden the security.

This is the site:
https://www.xxxx.com/

This is the contact us page with the mailto link I know of:
https://www.xxxx.com/contact-us

And the attachment below is a screenshot of what sh404SEF is saying has the highest 404 hits.

Under the 'User Agent' it appears that a bot is responsible or bots are responsible. Here is one of the link:
User agent : Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MJ12bot/v1.4.8; http://mj12bot.com/)

The site was recently upgraded to Joomla 3.x it was 2.x previously. Do you think a site re-submission is required? Is it that the bots are looking for the old links? What do you think I should do?

Friday, 24 January 2020 13:48 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

This screenshot:

is not showing your mailto link. A mailto link is similar to

mailto:[email protected]

and it cannot trigger a 404 per se because it is meant to be interpreted by the browser directly, it will never be requested to your server.

The 404 you should is a direct request to the Joomla MailTo component, the one used when enabling the Mail to feature for an article:

On regular Joomla site with that feature enabled, this is a part of the link used when Joomla SEF only is enabled. I suspect the Majestic SEO bot found it somewhere and keeps retrying it.

As with 90% of all 404s, there's nothing to do about it.

Best regards

Friday, 24 January 2020 19:41 UTC

dwilson-docufi-com

Understood. Thank you for your time.

Monday, 27 January 2020 09:49 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

You're welcome! Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

If you created any superadmin account for us, be sure to delete or block it now to avoid unnecessary risk in the future.

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Best regards

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 05:34 UTC

system

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