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I am working on a project in ASP.NET MVC and a requirement is that users are able to upload images (using their mobile device) via email. I have an idea but I wanted to know if there is a better way of doing this.

My plan:

  1. The user picks (or is assigned) a mobile email address to upload to. ([email protected])

  2. The user takes a picture with their mobile phone and emails it to the address above

  3. The email address inbox does not exist, and gets forwarded by the server to a catch-all address

  4. The server side app checks every minute or so for new email in the catch-all and determines the original recipient from headers, etc.

This is just my initial idea. Is there a better to accomplish my goal? Is there any software (for Windows) that will help me do this?

Thanks!