I've been working on a little website to suck mail from nowhere: liamon.com.

I got the idea from an article I read about The Mailinator, a web-based e-mail service that allows you to give out e-mail addresses at their domain and they'll receive the mail. The mail is unsecured, so no passwords are allowed. Their idea is to help protect you from SPAM by allowing you to send it to their servers instead.

It got me thinking, and as part kick, I started liamon.com. Liamon is "no mail" backwards; cute, eh? It was a nerd adventure as I toyed with (an as yet uncomplete) database stored e-mails for fast retreival and constant elimination, and the sendmail filter to receive the messages.

I found a model and tapped out my own "milter" that accepts the mail, applies a little "should I bother saving it" logic (saving only mail for addresses created or reviewed in the last week) and updates a few statistic keeping tables. I'm still working on how to handle parsing attached contents, but for now it just holds the whole message (waste of space), and presents it to the user in plain text; no HTML or other translation allowed.

I tapped out a simple web page to test the database access and interface. I'm tearing the page apart and making a friendlier iterface, and a prettier one, too.