Website messaging proxy system a-la gumtree

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eek replied

13 December 2016, 08:52
Originally posted by Cliphead View Post

Lots of free PHP solutions for a contact page that will send an email to you without exposing your email address.

I think that's partly what he's getting at. The other half is an email server that routes fake email addresses to the real address.

so as email is sent to the seller (seller@seller.com) it comes from dummyaddress1234@yoursite.com and responses to dummyaddress1234@yoursite.com are grabbed and resent to buyer@buyer.com from dummyaddress5678@yoursite.com.

Hence all contact details are hidden from the other party by the email server intercepting the emails and redirecting them.

And that is going to require some work...
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Cliphead replied

13 December 2016, 08:41
Lots of free PHP solutions for a contact page that will send an email to you without exposing your email address.
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woohoo replied

13 December 2016, 06:57
Originally posted by zazou View Post

A bit of a contact that person box. If you've ever used Gumtree you get the idea.

I haven't used gumtree. I looked on their site and nothing obvious. So I'm going to leave it there until you provide more info or someone else can work out what you want.
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zazou replied

13 December 2016, 06:06
A bit of a contact that person box. If you've ever used Gumtree you get the idea.
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woohoo replied

12 December 2016, 23:22
I'm struggling to understand what you are trying to achieve, it could be me and being tired.

Are you wanting a chat room type thing, so the user clicks on a button up pops a window and you can chat away with someone? Or are you wanting a contact us form?

Last edited by woohoo; 12 December 2016, 23:26. Reason: tired, tired
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zazou started a topic Website messaging proxy system a-la gumtree

10 December 2016, 13:02
Website messaging proxy system a-la gumtree

Does anyone here have experience with coding a messaging relay system in a website or could point me in the right direction?

Let's say I put up a page and on there is a contact box where anyone can send me a message. I wouldn't want to expose my email nor necessarily the sender's so there would have to be some sort of a proxy mechanism or a messaging system.

There are no user accounts so pure internal messages based on that are out. The handles are email addresses.

I know gumtree does something of that nature but do you know of any off the shelf solutions (free or paid)?

The system is built using Azure, MVC, SendGrid.
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