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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/14/07 22:27
Craig Hurley wrote:
> On 14/10/2007 22:56, ELINTPimp wrote:
>> If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like he wants to be able to
>> spoof the email forward to look like the original sender sent it. I
>> think that if this is a legitimate question, if you aren't looking to
>> be, you will soon find yourself a SPAM hub. Essentially, you could
>> take an email from person1, change the contents, and send it to
>> another person with it looking like it came from person1.
>>
>> Please don't provide an answer to this for the script kiddies trolling
>> usenet.
>>
>
>
> j3sus_chr1st on a bike!
>
> Rather than deliver mail directly to my inbox, I'm forwarding it to a
> gmail account. gmail then kindly filters virus and spam. gmail then
> forwards mail back the original email account, where it gets piped to my
> php script.
>
> The php script parses the email for a header which indicates that it's
> been forwarded from a gmail account. If it finds that header which
> gmail added, it delivers it to my inbox, otherwise, the mail gets
> forwarded to gmail.
>
> There are 2 reasons for doing this: 1) mail backup 2) extra antivirus
> and antispam.
>
> I didn't want to include these extra details because they're not really
> relevant to my original question and would make it easier for people to
> go off topic (how wrong I was!). Its great to see moral people out
> there on the internet, but please don't jump the gun on a whim!!!
>
> Now please, can we get back on topic: using php to forward email...
>
> Regards,
> Craig.
>
Craig,
Lars is correct. You should do this in your mail server. You won't be
able to forward with PHP and keep the previous headers intact.
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