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Like a temporary e-mail service that contacts your regular e-mail service? There is countless versions of those like 10minutemail.com or something. This could

Like a temporary e-mail service that contacts your regular e-mail service? There is countless versions of those like 10minutemail.com or something. This could be done by running an automated script that makes an e-mail address temporarily adds it to your site. Then another script that check's said e-mail address. This is a problem with e-mail spam, but I think hiding your real e-mail from spambots is the main concern in this if I am understanding you right.

natdempk 13y ago
He wants more than that. He wants it craigslist style, on demand from an API, and forwarding to your real email. 10minutemail.com does none of those things, and doesn't cover the other features he requested either.
- switch33 13y ago
  AH, nevermind. I think his idea is a bit more elaborate after seeing updates to the post. You are right. It is a decent idea though and it protects businesses from spam. I like the idea.
ezl 13y ago
As far as I know, 10minutemail does not do this. I personally use 33mail for this sort of forwarding. However these are designed around obscuring MY email address, and using 10minutemail.com or 33mail.com's domains. I need to create emails for my customers that will forward to THEIR email addresses when another party contacts them, preferably using my own domain. While I guess I technically could figure out a way to use something like 10minutemail and register accounts for all of the users of my site, it would probably require: 1. the users of my site to tell 10minutemail that it's ok to forward to them (during 10minutemail's registration process) 2. i would have to post 10minutemail.com domains as the contact info for the customers of my site, which is an undesirable UI. If I'm missing something and I can in fact use existing services to do what I want, please fill me in, because I want this, I just don't want to build it (yet, anyways).
- switch33 13y ago
  One issue I see arising is your e-mails that are sent back obfuscated, would have trust issues, and be marked as spam in most cases because that is how it is handled. That's the biggest issue you will have with this idea.
  - ezl 13y ago
    yes, fair enough. even without the 2 way obfuscation, I'd still pay for this. craigslist implements something like this now. If you email a CL anonymized email address and email back and forth, you never get the counterparty's email address. Basically craigslist just acts as a relay, so all communication actually happens between $PERSON_A and Craigslist and separately between $PERSON_B and Craigslist.

natdempk 13y ago

He wants more than that. He wants it craigslist style, on demand from an API, and forwarding to your real email. 10minutemail.com does none of those things, and doesn't cover the other features he requested either.

switch33 13y ago
AH, nevermind. I think his idea is a bit more elaborate after seeing updates to the post. You are right. It is a decent idea though and it protects businesses from spam. I like the idea.

ezl 13y ago

As far as I know, 10minutemail does not do this. I personally use 33mail for this sort of forwarding. However these are designed around obscuring MY email address, and using 10minutemail.com or 33mail.com's domains. I need to create emails for my customers that will forward to THEIR email addresses when another party contacts them, preferably using my own domain. While I guess I technically could figure out a way to use something like 10minutemail and register accounts for all of the users of my site, it would probably require: 1. the users of my site to tell 10minutemail that it's ok to forward to them (during 10minutemail's registration process) 2. i would have to post 10minutemail.com domains as the contact info for the customers of my site, which is an undesirable UI. If I'm missing something and I can in fact use existing services to do what I want, please fill me in, because I want this, I just don't want to build it (yet, anyways).

switch33 13y ago
One issue I see arising is your e-mails that are sent back obfuscated, would have trust issues, and be marked as spam in most cases because that is how it is handled. That's the biggest issue you will have with this idea.
- ezl 13y ago
  yes, fair enough. even without the 2 way obfuscation, I'd still pay for this. craigslist implements something like this now. If you email a CL anonymized email address and email back and forth, you never get the counterparty's email address. Basically craigslist just acts as a relay, so all communication actually happens between $PERSON_A and Craigslist and separately between $PERSON_B and Craigslist.