create a Temporary accounts email server

anyone will please help me understand how to build a webpage similer to www.mailinator.com

i looking to build my own server. any links? thoughts? or ideas would be great to get me started.

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To build your own server use google… to make a site like that you would prolly want a good understanding of php and the right host that supports all those email accnts. OR BUILD YOUR OWN SERVER AND HOST IT YOURSELF… dmn cps lck… :( sry

To do something like Mailinator, he would pretty much have to use his own server. There's no way any sensible mail server will just accept mail that is sent to a non-existent address like Mailinator does; there's got to be something custom going on there.

sure i'll need a server. I wouldn't know how to figure the algorithms, the logic.

regedit wrote: sure i'll need a server. I wouldn't know how to figure the algorithms, the logic.

No… you'll need your own server because you'll need access to the mail server that you wouldn't have through a hosted one. The logic isn't that hard once you have the tools.

what tools would you recommend, or software, or any links, articles, forms.

regedit wrote: what tools would you recommend, or software, or any links, articles, forms.

A Linux-based mail server application (like Postfix or Sendmail), a good Google of "socket programming" with your favorite programming language tacked on to the end, a study of the OSI model, the structure of datagrams, and SMTP/POP3 raw socket transmissions and receipts.