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    <p>Facebook sends email notifications when a new message has arrived in a facebook message thread. The email allows you to reply on it without going to Facebook. I think it is being done by Facebook by generating a reply to email address that is linked to the message thread.</p> <p>Example of such a reply-to email adress of a facebook email notification (I modified some characters, so it won't work): m+51r6w8e000000bu1jfpbziio6jmfnvvtkaevxrgojnel8qv@reply.facebook.com</p> <p>I'm trying to implement a similar feature in my rails app. </p> <p>I'm still a newbie in rails and wondering how I should approach this issue.</p> <p>I was trying to encrypt the id of my message thread using the encryptor gem, then using this as an email adress in the form: encryptedId@mydomain.com. Issue is that the encrypted output contains characters that are not allowed in an email address.</p> <p>As I know little about encryption I googled and found the possibility to base64 encode the encrypted output. This is common practice for urls. But still, this has characters (for example %) that are not allowed in an email adress.</p> <p>I found that RC4 should be an encrytpion algorythm that has hexadecimal output. But the encryptor gem gives me 1 non-hexadecimal character when using this algorythm, so it doesn't seem to work. Conclusion: I'm a bit stuck.</p> <p>Maybe I'm looking to far. Are there other appoaches that I could consider?</p> <p>EDIT: extra info: I'm trying to make the email address non-guessable.</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
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