Anonymous remailer function?

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amir
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Anonymous remailer function?

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I am trying to create an anonymous remailer for my site. Basically, I want it to perform like Craigslist anonymous remailer function, where a reply is addressed to a random address via Craigslist, but is still sent to the poster. I'm new to PHP & MySQL, but I just can't think of a logical way to perform this.

The site will be written in PHP with a MySQL db.
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  • Set a catch all account on the server
  • have php check said account often (via cron, probably)
  • using the devised format, filter all the emails and notify parties as appropriate
  • decide what to do with the remaining emails (trash)
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