The Power Of Simplicity

My old friend and former colleague Johan Andersson once wrote what I'd like to call a killer app. The "Gimme One" mailservice. It's a match-all (or whatever the equivalent Qmail word is) file for an specific mail address which ivokes a Perl script.

|./generate.pl

generate.pl is a Perl script with a total of 86 lines, which when invoked creates a temporary forward adress at this domain to the senders address and notifies the sender of the newly created mail adress. The Qmailfile created by the script contains the real beauty:

|rm .qmail-temporary-address-1
sender@domain.com

And Johan hacked this together sometime around 2000. Lovely.