The emailcloak plugin ships with Joomla and replaces the emails in your content with Javascript code aimed at hiding them from spambots. This has two shortcomings: ★ spambots quickly learnt how to decode the javascript; ★ sometimes our markup is so complex that the email cloak just fails to work properly. ★

email2Contact has a different approach: instead of trying to fool the spambots, why not use your contact forms? Email2Contact replaces the emails found in your content with a link to your contacts form. You can choose (and localize) the text that will be used in the link, and several more options