Hello,
I have a question regarding anonymous email using random numbers for a mailbox name and was hoping someone at Tek-Tips might have an answer. The classifieds web site, craigslist.com, appears to use a randomly generated number for a seller’s email address when an anonymous email address is requested. It would seem to me that you would have to individually enter into your email server software each mailbox name. Can a script be used on a web page that would add a temporary mailbox names to your email server and then delete them after a number of days? I understand how to use a SQL database to do html mass mailings and I assume the db could be used to store the random numbers along with the real email address name. But I don’t see how the message would find its way to the right seller’s mailbox using a SQL db to match the random number to the real mailbox name. Can you connect a SQL db to a email server? We don’t have a current problem. We’re just trying to understand how this process works?
I have a question regarding anonymous email using random numbers for a mailbox name and was hoping someone at Tek-Tips might have an answer. The classifieds web site, craigslist.com, appears to use a randomly generated number for a seller’s email address when an anonymous email address is requested. It would seem to me that you would have to individually enter into your email server software each mailbox name. Can a script be used on a web page that would add a temporary mailbox names to your email server and then delete them after a number of days? I understand how to use a SQL database to do html mass mailings and I assume the db could be used to store the random numbers along with the real email address name. But I don’t see how the message would find its way to the right seller’s mailbox using a SQL db to match the random number to the real mailbox name. Can you connect a SQL db to a email server? We don’t have a current problem. We’re just trying to understand how this process works?