Writing my own "craigslist" in .NET, trying to figure out how to create disposable email aliases (craigslist type)?
Here's what I mean by "craigslist style".
My website is: somecoolurl.com
User creates an account, but doesn't want to give his/her email out as contact when posting on the site.
I want to give the user a TEMP email [email protected] and alias that to their real email. When the user wants to get a new email, the TEMP gets canned and a new email gets created.
Hmm, not exactly sure what you're referring to with "craigslist" but I do know that in an app that I currently built, I purchased the SmarterMail app from http://smartertools.com and used their .NET API as part of my software.
When a user signs up and pays, I generate a random string (you could make it more meaningful if you want) and then append it to the domain name ([email protected])
From there I create the email address via the SmarterMail API and assign the password based on the users existing password.
Then I have a watcher the checks to see if the paid subscription lapses... if it does, I disable the account for X days. If the user doesn't renew after X days, the watcher deletes the account (this keeps my total users down since I didn't pay for the unlimited license yet).
Works very well.
Are you talking about email address piping? Check out this SO question Best way to send anonymous email like craigslist
Here is how to pipe incomming mail on IIS
Set up a catch-all account. Then use C# to log in with IMAP or POP and forward according to your rules.