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Best way to send anonymous email like craigslist

Craigslist has a nice feature where when you respond to a poster you respond to an email such as [email protected]. The email is then in turn directed to the real email.

I am looking for a couple pointers on how to do this with PHP.

Thanks,
Levi

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Levi Avatar asked Apr 13 '09 19:04

Levi


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This is usually done by piping an e-mail address (often, a catch-all address) to PHP. Here's a tutorial on doing it that should get you started in the right direction.

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ceejayoz Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 23:09

ceejayoz