Software by tag 'disposable'

10 temporary email providers that you may need to fight spam

Posted by Lim on Apr 28th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet, Tips | 6 Comments

There are a lot of temporary email provider which let user to generate a fake email address. Here are some examples which may help you.

  1. SpamBox – Create your temporary email account which will expire from 30 minutes to 1 year (depends on your choice). All the mails received will redirect to your email account.
  2. 10 Minute Mail – The temporary email address will expire after 10 minutes. Any mails send to this address will automatically show up.
  3. MailZilla – Once you open or refresh the page, you will be given a new temporary email address. The generated email address is automatically saved to your clipboard.
  4. MailCatch – They provide 2 interesting features :- Access your temporary email by using subdomain name (yourinbox.mailcatch.com) and RSS feed.
  5. GuerrillaMail – This website provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 Minutes. You can read or reply email using this temporary email address.
  6. MintEmail – It will generate a four hour temporary email address. Their robot will automatically click the verification email sent to this address.
  7. Dodgit – Let user choose their desired temporary email address and also provide access to inbox via RSS.
  8. Spamify – Disposable temporary email address which expire after 60 minutes and user is able to set the email address.
  9. MailNull – Required registration, but user can create different email accounts to differentiate emails that come from different websites. All email will be forwarded to user’s original email account.
  10. FakedEmail – Every user that enter FakedEmail will be given a temporary email account which can automatically show new email message.

2 ways to protect your email address

Posted by Lim on Mar 8th, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tips, Tutorial | 4 Comments

Sometimes, we want to sign up for a web service, but were hesitate to giving out our email address because it may brought us a lot of spam mails. There are a few solution to this question.

Use a disposable email address

There are a lot of disposable email that you can choose. Guerrilla Mail and Mint email are the examples. When you visit Mint email, you will get a random email address. When you want to sign up any service, just use the random email address. Normally, these email will last for few hours. Some of them even provide automatic email verification. By using such service, you real email address will never appear on the spammer list.

Use temporary email forwarding service

This is the service which will create an temporary email account for you ( but you need to provide your real email account for them). Then you use the temporary email account to sign up anything you want. After that, all emails received by the temporary email will automatically forwarded to your real email account. Melt Mail is a website which provide this service.

Conclusion

I personally recommend the first solution. You still have to provide your email address to the temporary email forwarding service. Who knows they will sell your email address to others company? But the advantage of the second service is, you still can save your registration email in your own inbox, but you won’t get them if you use the disposable email address.

Guerrilla Mail | Mint email | Melt Mail