Title: Email Protected
Last modified: October 4, 2026

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# Email Protected

 *  Resolved [Mike Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcarter76/)
 * (@mcarter76)
 * [5 days, 7 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-protected-3/)
 * All of my email logs contain this **[email protected]** text instead of the actual
   email. I’m the only user on my server, so there’s no particularly good reason
   that an email address needs to be concealed in the logs, and it often helps me
   to understand who the message was intended for. Is there some way to disable 
   this feature?

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 *  Plugin Support [Darshana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darshanaw/)
 * (@darshanaw)
 * [2 days, 19 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-protected-3/#post-19037837)
 * Hi [@mcarter76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcarter76/),
 * Thanks for reaching out! WP Mail Logging stores and displays the raw address.
 * What you’re seeing is a layer between your server and your browser rewriting 
   the email addresses as the page loads. The most common cause is Cloudflare’s **
   Email Address Obfuscation**, which is part of their Scrape Shield feature. It
   scans the HTML of pages served through Cloudflare and replaces email addresses
   with `[email protected]` to protect them from bots. It doesn’t distinguish between
   your public pages and your admin area, so it can affect what you see in your 
   logs.
 * **First, confirm it’s Cloudflare**
    1. Open your WP Mail Logging page.
    2. Right-click and choose **View Page Source**.
    3. Search for `cdn-cgi/l/email-protection` or `data-cfemail`.
 * If either appears, Cloudflare is the one rewriting the addresses.
 * **If that’s confirmed, here’s how to turn it off**
 * **Option 1: Turn it off entirely**
    1. Log in to Cloudflare and select your domain.
    2. Go to **Scrape Shield**.
    3. Switch **Email Address Obfuscation** to **Off**.
    4. Save, then hard-refresh the logs page in your browser (Ctrl+F5 on Windows, or
       Cmd+Shift+R on Mac).
 * **Option 2: Keep it on for your public site only**
 * If you’d rather keep email addresses hidden on your public pages, you can disable
   obfuscation for just the admin area. Cloudflare has been migrating this from **
   Page Rules** to the newer **Configuration Rules**, so the exact menu may differ
   slightly depending on your account:
    1. Go to **Rules**, then either **Configuration Rules** or **Page Rules**.
    2. Create a rule matching `*yoursite.com/wp-admin*`
    3. Set **Email Obfuscation** to **Off**.
    4. Save and deploy.
 * Worth knowing: the global toggle is the more reliable of the two, and it’s what
   most people end up using. The per-path approach works, but has moved around in
   Cloudflare’s interface recently.
 * **If you’re not on Cloudflare**
 * Then something else is doing the rewriting. A security plugin or a browser extension
   that conceals email addresses would be the next places to look.
 * Let us know how it goes, and if you do track down the cause, we’d be glad to 
   hear what it was.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Mike Carter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcarter76/)
 * (@mcarter76)
 * [2 days, 15 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-protected-3/#post-19038028)
 * Hi [@darshanaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darshanaw/),
 * Thanks for clearing that up! Yes, I do use Cloudflare and never enabled the Email
   Obfuscation feature, but they are always implementing new features without telling
   us or changing the interface for their dashboard. Thanks for the detailed notes.
   I will try the second option to see if it’s possible to only obfuscate emails
   on the public side.
 * Mike

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