20 temporary email services - how many do you need?

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20 temporary email services - how many do you need?

by Brad Linder May 28th 2007

Here at Download Squad HQ, we sign up for a lot of new products and web services. And there's nothing quite as painful as putting your email address out there for yet another possible spammer.

That's where temporary email services come in. Need to enter an address to sign up for that new free service? Sign up for an email account that will expire in 10 minutes, wait for your registration info to come in, and kablooey, your temporary mailbox implodes and nobody can trace you.

While these services are great, we're not sure how useful this top 20 list of "temporary and disposable email services" is. Don't get us wrong, there's nothing particularly wrong with any of these services. But do you really need 20? The internet is full of top 5, top 10, and top 101 lists.

The top 10 Firefox extensions is one thing. But sometimes you just don't need that many options. One will do. So feel free to click on through and pick one at random. We'd recommend not reading the full list for fear you'll hurt your brain trying to decide which is actually best.

Tags: inbox, mailbox, temporary email, TemporaryEmail

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fenriz said 10:29PM on 5-28-2007

I don't use any of those "disposable" address services at all. They are sometimes irritating to set up, then you need to make and effort to check them (like webmail, which I hate), plus without signup they are insecure and anyone can login and view the emails you receive.

I use http://www.spamgourmet.com. It requires signup, but once done you can make up new addys on the fly, even a unique one for each garbage service you sign up for, and they will be redirected a limited number of times to your real addy. Spammers never get your real addy, you can track all your fake addys and see who is selling your addy, you get emails forwarded into your real inbox so you can use normal POP3 and IMAP access. Once registered, you never need to go back to Spamgourmet if you don't want to (though they have cool tools and options). It's the best service of the type I've found. If anyone knows of better, let me know!

Iggy Sol said 7:58AM on 5-29-2007

The advantage of many temporary email servers is that some of the older ones are occasionally blocked by registration servers. But with so many to choose from , surely one will work for you.

Michael Pate said 9:04AM on 5-29-2007

I have used Mailinator and Spam.la in the past and they both work quite differently. There is nothing wrong with multiples services in the same area if they do something that meets some need in a unique way.

Myron said 12:23PM on 5-29-2007

I've used spamex for years and highly recommend it.
http://www.spamex.com/

Disposable email said 8:00AM on 6-18-2007

check http://www.spaml.com

"Spaml - An instant disposable email service with less user interaction. It is a "no-click" service, where the user does not need to click to get the disposable address."

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