Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestructing email aliases.

Re:Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestruc... by ique on Friday April 23, 2010 @09:22AM (#1287947)

Looks pretty neat! Tried it out and took a quick look at the code. If I ever need a temp alias I will definitely use this. But, one thing I didn't find any info about anywhere.

Do you keep track of the deleted alias "keys". That is, if I create a mail and the key is m4m2 or whatever, I want to make sure that m4m2 will never ever lead to someone else (as well as not to me). If i register an account somewhere I obviously never want the mail going to the alias to end up at someone else either.

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Re:Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestruc... by pilif on Friday April 23, 2010 @11:20AM (#1288286)

ok. This issue is fixed now - a bit of thinking has shown me that it's way easier to implement than what I have first thought of.

Thanks for reporting this and happy tempaliasing :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Please review my node.js fun project: Selfdestruc... by pilif on Friday April 23, 2010 @09:25AM (#1287950)

That's an interesting point. Right now I'm not keeping track of used aliases and I'm even pruning used ones after some time. You are right though. I should fix that, even though it's not likely that the same ID is given out twice.

Edit: Reported as Issue #7: http://github.com/pilif/tempalias/issues/#issue/7

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