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craigslist style email system?

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Nov 04.2009

I’m looking to make a similar system that craigslist uses, which is:
you go to make a post and craigslists server assigns your real email address so [email][email protected][/email] to a temporary craigslist address [email][email protected][/email] type thing.

then when someone replies to [email][email protected][/email] it forwards the mail to [email][email protected][/email]

i guess what I am looking for is how do they tell the server to add a forwarding email for the users real address? so I want my forward.php script for example to take the users real email, then send it to the server and have the server add that email address to the email system and make a forwarding email which then gets assigned to that users post.

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@jimr451Nov 04.2009 — Well, first you have to know "how" your email server allows new forwards to be set up. Unless you are running a dedicated server you are probably out of luck.

If you have a dedicated server, you could probably do this, however, I suspect you'll need some root privileges to accomplish it; that would require some system knowledge and a lot of security knowledge.

-Jim
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@phi0xauthorNov 04.2009 — well then I'll just have to make a internal messaging system i guess -_-

for I am on shared hosting.

does anyone know if there is a specific name for this type of script type though? just curious to keep reading up on it for educational sake.
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