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Guerrilla Mail: Add e-mail to your disposable lifestyle
If you've ever wanted to sign up for a website just to check it out, but were hesitant to surrender your e-mail address for the fear of worthless e-mails filling your inbox to the brim, there is a solution as elegant as disposable tissues - and it's called Guerrilla Mail.Now you may have already done something smart like create an e-mail account for the specific purpose of receiving confirmation e-mails and other internet formalities. A good solution, but cumbersome because you still have to login to "confirm" the address and all that other jazz.
This is where Guerrilla Mail shines. Go to the site, click on "give me temporary e-mail," and you have an e-mail address that is all yours for the next fifteen minutes. Receive the e-mails you need to confirm at the address, and voila, forget about it. The beauty of disposable e-mail. No login, no password, just a quick way to deal with the trash. And if you find that you need a little more time, you can always get an extra fifteen minutes.
Obviously, as cool as it is, not too good for important stuff like bank accounts or online transactions - not everything in life is disposable.
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Junyo said 3:18PM on 1-08-2008
Yeah... that's nice. But spamgourmet has been doing this forever and has waaay mre features; you can create the disposable addresses on the fly, get stats or reactivate dead ones, anonymously reply through a disposable address, turn ones that turn out to be useful into permanent aliases.
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Matias Korhonen said 3:22PM on 1-08-2008
And don't forget www.mailinator.com and the tens of other disposable email services... This is hardly cutting edge stuff...
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Peter said 3:43PM on 1-08-2008
But it is still useful because some sites will not accept email addresses from the major known disposable services.
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Stop Spam Bots said 11:21PM on 1-08-2008
But post like this just gets them added to ban lists faster. I have a site dedicated specifically to blocking spammer email addresses and disposable sites like Guerrilla.
Between this post and comments I added couple more to my list thats downloaded about 50 times a day.
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DexterOz said 5:29PM on 1-08-2008
It would be great if the guerrilla service worked, I just tested it by sending from a corporate mail server, and also GMail, and Guerrilla didn't receive either of the emails (they didn't show up anyway) in the time frame, even extending the time frame resulted in no emails arriving.
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Romeo Wahed said 5:57PM on 1-08-2008
DexterOz > I just tried it again after reading your comment and finding I'm having the same problem. If this isn't an exception I might have to make an update...
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Peter said 6:38PM on 1-08-2008
Dexter and Romeo - It does appear to be having some troubles. I've been using http://www.mytempemail.com/ which offers the same functionality, plus it offers some additional features.
zkam said 6:31PM on 1-08-2008
One word: spamgourmet
(Yes, already mentioned above). It rocks
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zkam said 6:30PM on 1-08-2008
One word: spamgourmet
(Yes, already mentioned above). It rocks
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GoOrange said 7:59PM on 1-08-2008
I tried this last evening and couldn't get it to work properly. It wouldn't register any of the incoming emails. I tried a different service and it worked like a charm. The trouble is, I forgot what the name of the other service was.
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Jreg said 9:34AM on 1-09-2008
Trashmail with firefox extension = right click and paste disposable email. Easy as pie. mmm mmm
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James said 9:37AM on 1-09-2008
2prong.com is where I always go -- that's how I'm posting this comment, actually. The nice thing is that they buy a few dozen domains with random names (my favorite so far is kfedisbroke.com) so you can't blacklist them like "stop spam bots" above. Of course, you wouldn't *want* to in the case of 2prong, because it's receive-only, so there's not really a spam threat there.
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Adam Panzer said 5:36PM on 1-09-2008
Uhm, I like trashmail because they have firefox integration. No having to go to a stupid website. I create from within the add-on. :-)
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Pavan Kumar AR said 8:22PM on 1-09-2008
Yahoo too provides disposable address. Read this.
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