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This is a free public email redirection service I created as an exercise in order to experiment with the implications of creating and running an Internet service and also to practice CGI programming.
In the first two years online, people created more than 3000 forwarding accounts, being the only promotion registering it in several search engines.
The redirection service itself is provided by the system in which I am hosted, and it is configured by means of a simple ASCII file. What I have built myself is the web interface that manages the user database and updates the mentioned file. The programming is done in Python whereas user's data and configuration are stored in a MySQL database (I formerly used "Gadfly", an experimental database written in Python). As a complement to the existing system, I use several procmail recipes to filter out and return erroneous emails.
Features
- Three forwarding addresses per user, with duplicates.
- Simple, fast, effective interface.
- It allows to create, modify and delete accounts and also has automated password reminder.
- Includes several functions in order to avoid or detect abuse.
- In Spanish and Catalan