I brought up URL shortening for sharing files and meeting invitations.  I was rehashing this today with someone, and I though that it might be beneficial to have not just a shortened URL in the SmarterMail-hosted email domain, but also interfaces to third-party or custom.

For instance, an interface to create a short URL with bit.ly, and others.  As well as a definable interface to mine that I build for my own uses, with something like some kind of authentication token or credentials and the URL to shorten.

Shameless New Year bump.

Yep, I agree. This would be awesome. I had to upload a few large video files of accidents and thefts for the police and victims to grab them. They are LARGE files, and I have no idea if they actually downloaded them or not. It would be nice to at minimum get some type of verification that the files were accessed. but yes, an automatic removal once they have been downloaded like 2 times for us would be great.