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Send, Receive, & Manage Blind E-mail
Accounts
This application was developed for non-profit businesses to allow their readers to send e-mail
from the business Website, while keeping the individual e-mail address hidden from the sender.
Likewise, the staff person can reply to an e-mail and not divulge their e-mail address.
The receiver's e-mail address is hidden to protect their confidentiality. After all,
they do not want to get on chain lists or receive attached photos, viruses, and the like.
This technique has the additional value of preventing spammers or weirdoes from finding any
e-mail addresses (with the exception of a default e-mail address).
Take a look at how a reader sends an e-mail:
Now, take a look at a blind e-mail reply that a staff person sends:
Here are this application's features:
- Each staff person is assigned a unique ID that is coded as a hyperlink on any Web page.
When someone wants to e-mail that person, the sender clicks on the hyperlink, and the
program does the rest. It pops-up an e-mail window. The program finds the recipient's name
and e-mail address from an identifier file and places their
name (only) in the pop-up window. For instance try Contact
the Webmaster
- Staff can receive e-mail at any e-mail address they wish. The identifier file maps the
receiver's ID to their unique e-mail address. . . cool!
- The staff member can either use their regular e-mail account or use this
application's E-mail Reply Form to respond
to e-mails. You would use the latter to reply and still keep your private e-mail address
confidential. This makes sense for business inquiries where you do not want to give your
e-mail address, knowing that you will probably get on a junk mail list.
- An e-mail manager interface allows the system administrator or Webmaster
(someone, not more than one person) to add and delete staff from this identifier file.
Pretty simple. It allows two methods to find a user: Search or view all records.
- Actually thousands of users can be assigned a unique 1-10 alpha/numerical ID. Yes, you
can use any 1-10 character ID combination consisting of letters and/or numbers. Such as 001,
0ay999, Ab0d9Uu2sB.
Note: We suggest using an unpredictable number to avoid users from writing a script to
hack your database. In other words, do not make your ID continuous.
- A setup file sets up the information used by some of the script files. Thus, you do not
need to edit the script files.
- It uses JavaScript form field validation, to ensure that pertinent form fields are filled in.
- All these files are designed to fit into one PASSWORD-PROTECTED FOLDER.
- This program was designed to work on a UNIX server. It will work on a Windows server
with some tweaking. If you do not know how to tweak PHP code then do so at your own risk.
I assume no responsibility for your modifications.
- This program features PHP and JavaScript programming. The Website must support PHP
programs for this application to work!
- You must know how to modify HTML coding.
- You need to know how to get files to your server.
- You must know how to create a directory and password-protect that directory. If you do not password
protect this directory, everyone will be able to delete and/or modify your database. And they will
see the database.
- You must know how to change the read/write/access requirements for the identifier file.
Here is what you see when you receive an e-mail. The text in blue is
automatically added. To specify the server information you must edit the information in
the setup.php file:
Received from the Your Server name.
From Mary Jane
E-mail address: maryjane@maryjane.com
Message:
I am concerned about how John is doing in your English class. Does he have all his
assignments in?
If you are sending an e-mail using the E-mail Reply Form here is
what the receiver sees:
John is doing great. He turned in all his assignments. I wish I had more students like
him.
Received from Your Server mail server
Do not reply to this e-mail address
http://www.yourserver.org
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