E-mail question

[siliconmike]

I'm building a small community website for my city where users will be able to post their classified ads. (Something like craigslist.org)

Here user's email would be anonymized and shown like hidden123@whatever.com

So any email would be first sent to fq server hosting whatever.com (which I have not yet named and which I'm thinking to host of fq) .

And then the server would forward the email to the address of the original user.

I'll be using PHP. My question is that does fq support this kind of "email sending by server" ?

(I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't because anyone can misuse this feature to send spam.)

[hobbes]

What you probably want to do (at FQ) is to have the email Chatch-All enabled with a custom filter (script) which processes all messages coming in. The script would see who it was directed to and have some kind of look up table to determine where it should be sent. Note that FQ would not support you directly in doing this.

You could also setup email aliases, but that would probably be a bit of a maintenance nightmare.

[John Kennett]

Have you considered having a contact form on the web site instead of email addresses? This would save a whole level of complexity without making your advertisers' email addresses public.

It's quite a common way of doing it, and is a standard option on several (most?) scripts. I have vBulletin and phpMyDirectory set up this way on an FQ server.

John

[siliconmike]

I would also like to enable them to send email, apart from an online form.

So would my php script be able to send email? Does fq allow this ?

[hobbes]

So would my php script be able to send email? Does fq allow this ? Yes.