Hi,
I've seen that some services such as www.didtheyreadit.com
www.ReadNotify.com use a special redirection system by adding their own
domain name to an email (for example
user@domain.com.didtheyreadit.com).
Could someone explain me how it is done and how something such as a
script could handle that kind of operation ?
Thank you,
S=E9b
Séb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've seen that some services such as www.didtheyreadit.com
> www.ReadNotify.com use a special redirection system by adding their own
> domain name to an email (for example
> user@domain.com.didtheyreadit.com).
>
> Could someone explain me how it is done and how something such as a
> script could handle that kind of operation ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Séb
>
There are many ways that this can be done, such that it is impossible to
explain in a few words.
I can you see which part is which? This is what the script would (if
that is the setup) will do, strip out the didthereadit.com and do
whatever else is needed.
The setup could also be on the mail server where
domain.com.didthereadit.com is a virtual domain. The script need only
extract the username.
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Séb writes:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've seen that some services such as www.didtheyreadit.com
> www.ReadNotify.com use a special redirection system by adding their own
> domain name to an email (for example
> user@domain.com.didtheyreadit.com).
>=20
> Could someone explain me how it is done
They simply have a wildcard MX record for *.didtheyreadit.com, so all mai=
l=20
to anything.didtheyreadit.com goes to their mail server.
They run a custom mail server that reads the recipient's address, strips =
off=20
their domain name, adds some snake oil[1], and forwards the mail to the=20
recipient's address.
[1] didtheyreadit.com is snake oil, peddled to gullible fools.
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