Manage spamgourmet via email interface?

[Alan]

Here is a feature suggestion:

In priniciple spamgourmet users should rarely, if ever, have to revisit the website. Unfortunately, this is sometimes necessary. Could it be made possible to control spamgourmet accounts via an email interface? This may be quicker for users, because the situations where users decide to manage their addresses would generally arise while they are already running their email clients.

Maybe the interface could be to send a message to, say, "manage@spamgourmet.com", with a blank subject, and one command per line in the message body.

As an example of a specific command to implement, one of the most common needs (in my experience) is to change the remaining message count for a disposable address, because it turns out that the originally chosen message count was either too high or too low. In this case, the command might be "setcount" and its arguments might be [count] [disposable address] [password], so that the line in the email body would expand to something like:

setcount 0 foo.10.bar@spamgourmet.com mysecretpassword

Maybe the interface could also support a command called "reply" (without arguments), which causes the interface to send a success-report email to the account's registered forwarding address (the default being not to reply), and a command called "help" (again, without arguments) which lists all the possible commands. This could then be extensible to cover a larger range of management commands in future, but resetting message counts would be the most obviously useful initial feature.

Is this a reasonable suggestion?

Many thanks,

Alan

[sitary]

I second the suggestion. Something very similar to your enhancement was mentioned several months ago - see the Polls forum. Guess not enough people clamored for it.

Come on people, clamor!

[nsomos]

You manage/create by emailing to the spamgourmet
address you want to manage/create from the forwarding
address. This simplifies specifying the address you want
to manage/create. With the email sender matching a
spamgourmet forwarding address, you establish your
credentials for doing such management.

Contents could be things like
"reload" or "reload 10"
to add the maximum, or 10 additional replies.

Alternate contents could be things like
"send-status" or just "status" to get a status report
emailed back to the forwarding address.

or
"add trusted foobar@whatzit.com"

or
"help"
to get a response of possible email spamgourmet
management commands.

Any of these could be in the subject line instead.

[yuting]

You manage/create by emailing to the spamgourmet
address you want to manage/create from the forwarding
address. This simplifies specifying the address you want
to manage/create. With the email sender matching a
spamgourmet forwarding address, you establish your
credentials for doing such management.

Contents could be things like
"reload" or "reload 10"
to add the maximum, or 10 additional replies.

Alternate contents could be things like
"send-status" or just "status" to get a status report
emailed back to the forwarding address.

or
"add trusted foobar@whatzit.com"

or
"help"
to get a response of possible email spamgourmet
management commands.

Any of these could be in the subject line instead.

Very effective syntax!
As most commands are likely to be one line only. Putting the command in the subject would be even faster.