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TempInbox: Disposable e-mail addresses with RSS feeds
The age-old dilemma: You want to
try out Cool New Service X and need to give them a valid e-mail address when you sign up, but you never really want to
hear from them again nor risk getting your e-mail address put on a spam list. The answer is the disposable e-mail
address and there are a number of such solutions (Spamgourment comes to
mind), but the simplest I've yet to see is TempInbox. Just give those services
any e-mail address ending in @tempinbox.com and those e-mails can be accessed by entering the bit before the @ at the
TempInbox site. As a bonus, they've also got RSS feeds for every inbox. Beware, though, there's absolutely no security
going on here, so be sure to only use it for the truly disposable sign-ups.
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Eagle117 said 5:45PM on 1-03-2006
And that is why I've been using Mailinator for some time now...
www.mailinator.com
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Brian Pipa said 5:49PM on 1-03-2006
Another one to use is http://mailinator.com - it was the first disposable email service. it also has RSS feeds and has the super-cool Spam Map - http://mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html
There are also quite a few alternate domains you can use that map to mailinator.com in case a site rejects a mailinator address. Be sure an and check out the FAQ too - it's pretty funny.
Brian
http://candyaddict.com
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watcher said 6:34PM on 1-03-2006
And I've been using dodgeit.com for a while too.
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Shep Eddy said 9:31PM on 1-03-2006
Mailinator. Accept no substitues.
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utfear said 7:25AM on 1-04-2006
www.pookmail.com is another disposable one that has an rss feed.
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Ryan Mitchell said 1:00PM on 1-04-2006
I use http://www.spamex.com for disposable e-mail addresses -- not free, but nominal fee ($20/yr for mid-tier account, I believe).
It has the added benefit of providing a bookmark that will automatically detect the URL that you're currently on when you click the bookmark (which pops up a small window) and once you log in to their service it automatically searches your disposable e-mail addresses for the one you created for that site. It also provides meta-data for each address (username/password information, notes, etc.) and the ability to have each individual address act as a whitelist/blacklist address. This service is great because once you start using it if you get spam through one of the e-mail addresses you can actually trace back to what site sold your address (assuming you create an address for every site you sign up to).
I've been using it for years, it's great stuff.
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