Patent ID: 8719360

Claim:
A method, comprising: establishing an email redirection server configured for obfuscating an email address of a subscriber using a subdomain; receiving a request from a subscriber for a subscriber subdomain; associating a subscriber subdomain with an email address of the subscriber; storing the email address of the subscriber and the subscriber subdomain in a data store associated with the email redirection server; and handling at least one email received by the email redirection server, the at least one email including at least the subscriber subdomain in a domain part of a “to” address of the at least one email, including at least: determining that the at least one email is intended for the subscriber, including at least: searching for a record in the data store having the subscriber subdomain in the domain part of the “to” address of the at least one email; and determining that the email address associated with the record is different from the “from” address of the at least one email; determining an envelope for facilitating delivery of the at least one email, including at least: addressing the at least one email to the email address associated with the record; setting the “from” address of the envelope to the email address of the sender of the at least one email received by the email redirection server; appending the subdomain associated with subscriber to the “from” address of the at least one email received by the email redirection server; and associating the “from” address and appended subdomain with a “reply-to” address of the envelope; and facilitating delivery of the at least one email, wherein at least one of the establishing, receiving, associating, storing or handling is at least partially encoded in one or more non-transitory computer readable media.