auto creation of email IDs

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Hey Guys,

I've been at this for couple of days now, and have no clue where to start,
and was almost thinking about scrapping the project, It would be great help
if anyone can give me some advice, or guide me in the right direction.

I have a portal, where users would come in and register and create an
account, as soon as an account is created, I want to be able to auto create
an email ID for them, the server would be Linux, any ideas on how this can
be done.

And also an option of creating a temporary email ID, upon creating a topic
or some kind of a post.

Could anyone guide me in the right direction or help me on this one, please
?


Thanks in Advance,
Vinay Kannan.

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Re: auto creation of email IDs

Vinay Kannan wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I've been at this for couple of days now, and have no clue where to start,
> and was almost thinking about scrapping the project, It would be great help
> if anyone can give me some advice, or guide me in the right direction.
>
> I have a portal, where users would come in and register and create an
> account, as soon as an account is created, I want to be able to auto create
> an email ID for them, the server would be Linux, any ideas on how this can
> be done.
>
What is an "email id"?
Do you want to create a unique ID depending on the users email that can
be identified only by you?
Then i guess you want to look at hashing (md5,SHA-X...) + salt.

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Re: auto creation of email IDs

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If you would like to set email ids then it wud also mean u wud nead to set
your own smtp server as creation of email ids would not be a problem on ur
side however to recieve emails you must have an smtp server

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jay Ess wrote:

> Vinay Kannan wrote:
>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> I've been at this for couple of days now, and have no clue where to start,
>> and was almost thinking about scrapping the project, It would be great
>> help
>> if anyone can give me some advice, or guide me in the right direction.
>>
>> I have a portal, where users would come in and register and create an
>> account, as soon as an account is created, I want to be able to auto
>> create
>> an email ID for them, the server would be Linux, any ideas on how this can
>> be done.
>>
>>
> What is an "email id"?
> Do you want to create a unique ID depending on the users email that can be
> identified only by you?
> Then i guess you want to look at hashing (md5,SHA-X...) + salt.
>
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Re: auto creation of email IDs

Vinay Kannan wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I've been at this for couple of days now, and have no clue where to start,
> and was almost thinking about scrapping the project, It would be great help
> if anyone can give me some advice, or guide me in the right direction.
>
> I have a portal, where users would come in and register and create an
> account, as soon as an account is created, I want to be able to auto create
> an email ID for them, the server would be Linux, any ideas on how this can
> be done.
>
> And also an option of creating a temporary email ID, upon creating a topic
> or some kind of a post.
>
> Could anyone guide me in the right direction or help me on this one, please
> ?

I assume "email id" means "email address" or "email account".

Yes, you can do it - postfix supports talking to a database. Exim and
sendmail might also support this, I don't have any experience with them
though.

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Re: auto creation of email IDs

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When the users register are you wanting to create a email account for them
on your server or are you wanting to use a email address that they already
have?

It is possible to create a temporary email id but I am not sure how you
would be able to tie this back to the person so they would actually
receive replies back to this topic if you have no information for them and
they are just creating a topic. The best thing would be to require them to
register in order to post a topic.

Thats my thoughts on it...

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Hey Thanks Barry,

Yeah, I want to be able to creat email accounts automatically, when people
get themselves registered on the website, this should be done automatically,
you are right about the temp email id, that would change and the email IDs
generated would be permanent, which would be deleted after couple of months.

So basically, what I am looking at is, a way to be able to create email IDs
on a Linux server, when people post comments, how can this be done?

Thanks,
Vinay Kannan.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Barry Stear wrote:

> When the users register are you wanting to create a email account for them
> on your server or are you wanting to use a email address that they already
> have?
>
> It is possible to create a temporary email id but I am not sure how you
> would be able to tie this back to the person so they would actually
> receive replies back to this topic if you have no information for them and
> they are just creating a topic. The best thing would be to require them to
> register in order to post a topic.
>
> Thats my thoughts on it...
>

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Thanks a lot for all your replies, I appreciate the workarounds, all of them
are great, but my concern is to get the work done in this particular way,
does any one know how this can be done?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

> I would stamp it with their IP address + current time if they are just
> posting comments. Or user ID + current time if they are registered users
> leaving comments. This may be more of a workaround, but it will get you
> unique numbers.
>
> Karl
>
> Sent from losPhone
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2009, at 9:39 AM, Vinay Kannan wrote:
>
> Hey Thanks Barry,
>>
>> Yeah, I want to be able to creat email accounts automatically, when people
>> get themselves registered on the website, this should be done
>> automatically,
>> you are right about the temp email id, that would change and the email IDs
>> generated would be permanent, which would be deleted after couple of
>> months.
>>
>> So basically, what I am looking at is, a way to be able to create email
>> IDs
>> on a Linux server, when people post comments, how can this be done?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vinay Kannan.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Barry Stear wrote:
>>
>> When the users register are you wanting to create a email account for them
>>> on your server or are you wanting to use a email address that they
>>> already
>>> have?
>>>
>>> It is possible to create a temporary email id but I am not sure how you
>>> would be able to tie this back to the person so they would actually
>>> receive replies back to this topic if you have no information for them
>>> and
>>> they are just creating a topic. The best thing would be to require them
>>> to
>>> register in order to post a topic.
>>>
>>> Thats my thoughts on it...
>>>
>>>

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Re: auto creation of email IDs

Vinay Kannan wrote:
> Hey Thanks Barry,
> Yeah, I want to be able to creat email accounts automatically, when people
> get themselves registered on the website, this should be done automatically,
> you are right about the temp email id, that would change and the email IDs
> generated would be permanent, which would be deleted after couple of months.
> So basically, what I am looking at is, a way to be able to create email IDs
> on a Linux server, when people post comments, how can this be done?
> Thanks,
> Vinay Kannan.


This should not be a problem as long as you have full access to the
server configuration files (dedicated server or virtual server).
Configure your email demons to use a mysql database to store the account
information.
Now you can use php to create new email accounts.

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