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View Full Version : Anonymous E-Mail (a la Craigslist)


aingaran
09-10-2006, 11:58 AM
Hi,

Does anyonhe know where I can find anything documentation on how to create anonymous e-mails a la craigslist.

IE. Visitor comes & himself with his email (joeblow@yahoo.com) and I do not wish to reveal his yahoo address on my website. I wish to create a temporary address a la anonymous0123@mydomain.com automatically.

The way craigslist does it when I post an ad.

I wish to do it in conjunction with PHP/MySQL

Any help/point in right direction would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Xeentech
09-10-2006, 12:07 PM
Personaly I'd just have a PHP/CGI form that takes user input and emails it to the email address on file.

If you really wanted an email address @yourdomain.com like whitepages/classified ads do I'd use a forward so email addresses on your domain have "aliases" to te users real email addresses. After the ad is done, removed or the subscription has run out, the address/alias/forward is removed and forwards stop forwarding.

I've used postfix to lookup email addresses/aliases from a MySQL table in the past so users could have thier company email address forward to thier normal one making it easier to check thier mail.

daveredfern
09-11-2006, 02:04 PM
often annoymous emails will be moved into the junk of an email account.