Question

This has been a massive headache. We use Ning as a our platform for an arts event project. We want to ask our audience to upload photos to our website via an email address. The only issue is that Ning only will give us ridiculous email addresses for this purpose… such as [e-mail] That hardly sticks in the mind!

So I thought, lets just forward emails from an easy to remember email address to the Ning’s crazy one… BUT Ning doesn’t allow any emails to upload photos if they are detected as being forwarded or redirected. I guess that detection is done through the email header.

So that is why I need a way to redirect an email to another address without that being reflected in the header info in the email. I thought perhaps Outlook receiving the emails from the easy to remember email address, then somehow resending them with a fresh clean header may be the answer? I can code in PHP, and run a home headerless ubuntu server on a domestic internet connection too if that may provide a better answer?

Any thoughts how I could achieve this goal?

Answer 1

If you can forward the email to your server you can have it piped to PHP which can then resend the email for you with whatever email address you wish to be displayed. Just make sure you have things like DomainKeys and SPF records set up for that server or else your chances of the mail being seen as spam will increase.