Comments on: Five Free Temporary Email Services To Avoid Spam

By: Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:37:33 +0000

The problem with these are they expire at a predetermine time.
Often you want the option to keep using the address, and turn it off only if it becomes corrupted.
Check out Soodonims.com for that

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By: SadistiX

SadistiX — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:47:03 +0000

Real useful! Bookmarked!

By: tayker

tayker — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:10:26 +0000

I’m content with EndJunk.com. Plus it has more features than some of the others.

By: MrCodeE

MrCodeE — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:34:26 +0000

I use sogetthis.com, or one of it’s other sites. Creates the mailbox upon arrival of message. Make up whatever you want as you go.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:08:27 +0000

I use guerrillamail.com although they have recently reduced the length of up time for each address

Alternatively yahoo allows you to set up temporary addresses through the options menu. You can then delete the address if you start getting spam

By: Devon Hillard

Devon Hillard — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:38:13 +0000

Thank you for mentioned my site, 10MinuteMail.com, in your review. 10MinuteMail is designed to be secure (there is no way for anyone else to read e-mail sent to you, unlike many of the other services), easy to use (currently you can use either a single click or just Ctrl-C to copy the e-mail address to your clipboard and go), and simple. It's not for everyone, but it is handy.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:48:09 +0000

howabout makemetheking.com ? My favorite.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:03:37 +0000

That’s not the point. The point is that, instead of making a temporary email account to create an account on a questionable-spam-status site, you can use a bugmenot account to login to the site, skipping *any* kind of registration.

By: Will Mueller

Will Mueller — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:38:05 +0000

I have seen BugMeNot’s temporary email service, except I believe it has been shut down (http://email.bugmenot.com/).

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:22:18 +0000

One of these sites needs to have a browser toolbar, if I was going to use this kind of service I would use it quite regularly and I wouldn’t want to have to go to the website each time. Ones like the 10min email would make a really good toolbar, just a button you click, it randomly generates the email, displays it and then automatically loads it into the clipboard to be pasted in the forum your using it for. So its only one click away, if it was lightweight (I don’t see why it wouldn’t be) and junk free I would prob use it all the time.

By: Naoki

Naoki — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:16:42 +0000

These sites are completely useless when you have this Firefox addon called bugmenot – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349If . If you don’t use Firefox dont worry, just go to the website – http://www.bugmenot.com . Much better then all these sites and better yet create your another email instead of these temporary mail stuff because like the title says it’s only TEMPORARY.

By: David

David — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:12:44 +0000

You haven’t mentioned the grand-daddy of ‘em all – Spamgourmet. http://www.spamgourmet.com

By: Simple Simon

Simple Simon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:32:41 +0000

On a slight tangent, when you need more than a temporary, but still want to track where/why SPAM is happening, use a unique but real email for each company you do business with.

If you own your own domain with catch-all e-mail services, you can create a new address when needed. If you start getting SPAM at that address, you KNOW who gave your address out, so you quit doing business with them and redirect that address to their customer service department.

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:01:44 +0000

Thanks for your share!
I have translated it to Chinese, hope u’ll not mind.

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By: Daniel Bragg

Daniel Bragg — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:49:56 +0000

I want to give a second vote for Sneakemail. It offers two things that I haven’t seen in other temporary e-mail services:

1) an automatic “no extra steps required” way to generate an e-mail address (I can offer YourName.braggfamily@sneakemail.com without any extra steps at all, and it still protects my main e-mail address), and

2) within the email address itself are any necessary instructions for address self-destruction (billybob.5.braggfamily@sneakemail.com will self-destruct after receiving 5 e-mails, unless extended using the web service).

This gives you the best of no-hassle temporary e-mails, with a very easy and clear way to see who’s been using or abusing your e-mail address. Never again do you need to question _where_ that scum-sucking spammer got your mail address from – it’ll be clearly understood when you receive the e-mail.

By: Will Mueller

Will Mueller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:26:33 +0000

Ya, checking that out right now, looks great. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: Will Mueller

Will Mueller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:23:55 +0000

Thanks, that site does look cool. I will have to check that out.

By: Will Mueller

Will Mueller — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:17:57 +0000

Agreed. I use Gmail as well – it has a great spam filter. Thanks for pointing that out.

By: Tharpa Roberts

Tharpa Roberts — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:14:23 +0000

I think Sneakemail deserves an honorable mention. With Sneakemail, the emphasis is on disposable rather than temporary. You can create as many addresses as you want; when you start getting spam, you can delete that address. Up to 10 MB free per month.

By: liebesiech

liebesiech — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:51:31 +0000

Try http://www.temporaryinbox.com
No registration! A lot of domain names you can use for your fake email address. Can be integrated into Firefox. Check it out yourself. I really can recommend this service.

By: Amgad

Amgad — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:52:19 +0000

I like 10MinuteMail, it gets the job done

By: Michael Lockyear

Michael Lockyear — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:21:45 +0000

I use gmail (or google apps for domains). Spam very rarely makes it through there filters…and I’ve subscribed to many sites.

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By: Gerrit

Gerrit — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:04:38 +0000

What about Trashmail. With a Firefox plug in it couldn’t be any easier to use. Do any of these others have FF plug ins by chance, not that I’m looking to switch – just curious)?

By: Anne H

Anne H — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:58:47 +0000

These email providers can be useful when you have to give an email address, but don’t wish to use your main one. I do use them if the company’s privacy policy looks like they routinely sell their email addresses or the site doesn’t have a privacy policy.