Do your packages offer Plesk?

Do your packages offer Plesk? It would look something like this: http://tutorials.ausweb.com.au/web/Tutorials/Windows-Plesk-ASP.NET/Plesk---Email-Aliases/

As the link shows, I'd be using it to create email aliases.

Thanks.

 

Thanks for your post.

I need to be able to create email aliases on the fly with the web application we'd be setting up in our web hosting account.

Basically, we'de receive many emails with different aliases ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected]) where the number at the beginning would be the transaction ID. We wanted to forward all those emails to a specific email address, and then forward them to the user's real email address.

So for example, an email to [email protected] would actually be sent to [email protected].

An asp.net expert suggested we used Plesk. What other way can that be possible?
We're using asp.net 2, and c sharp.

 

Since you're developing your own .NET web application, how about implementing your own anonymous email address <-> real email address relationship in one (or more) database table(s)?

 

Thanks for the post.

I can do that, but how will I able to intercept the incoming email address?

Let's say 3 users send emails to five different addresses ([email protected], [email protected], [email protected]). How can I retrieve those emails in order to process them in the application?

The problem is the actual email being sent, and how I can get a hold of it in order to find its real email address.

 

Yes I see your problem now. This could be a valid solution to your problem:

1) Setup a single 'system' mailbox on the DASP smartermail email platform that is intended to receive all inbound emails.
2) Configure this email account to be a catch-all account - this will enable users to send to [email protected], [email protected] and the mail will be successfully stored in the mailbox
3) Create a web page that is effectively an email pop3 client and also an email sender. This web page performs the task of retrieving emails from the single catch all account, parses the 'transaction id' from the front of the email address, finds the real email address in the database and then forwards the content of the email onwards.
4) Create a scheduled job in the DASP scheduler to hit this page at regular intervals so that emails are retreived and forwarded automatically.

Do you think that this could work?

 

You could also use the Control Panel API to create aliases (and then run a cleanup script periodically to delete them if they are only for temporary use).

(API page on the main site.)

 

A great suggestion mjp and I am interested to know how many permanent aliases are supported/allowed in a single account on smartermail. I'm sure that between this one and the catch-all suggestion that there must be a viable solution here for the OP.

 

I don't believe there is a limit.

But I have to defer to Bruce's suggestion, he's smarter than I am.