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Melt Mail provides free, disposable email forwarding
We've looked at other disposable email services (like my list of 5 with RSS support) before. Melt Mail is a nice alternative to other disposable account services.
Many require you return to their site to check for messages, but Melt Mail lets you work with any real email address.
Melt Mail works with your existing email, setting up a temporary forward @meltmail.com. You've got four time periods to choose from - three, six, 12, or 24 hours. After that, your address expires and forwards from it to your real account cease.
Once your address has been created, you can choose to pop up a small reminder window that displays your address and an expiration countdown.
One source of concern I have with the service is the lack of a privacy statement. If you're going to use Melt Mail (or a service like this), check for one before signing up. Who's to say your real address won't end up on someone's mailing list.
Melt Mail is a slick service, I'll just stick to using it with my "registration" gMail account.
Many require you return to their site to check for messages, but Melt Mail lets you work with any real email address.
Melt Mail works with your existing email, setting up a temporary forward @meltmail.com. You've got four time periods to choose from - three, six, 12, or 24 hours. After that, your address expires and forwards from it to your real account cease.
Once your address has been created, you can choose to pop up a small reminder window that displays your address and an expiration countdown.
One source of concern I have with the service is the lack of a privacy statement. If you're going to use Melt Mail (or a service like this), check for one before signing up. Who's to say your real address won't end up on someone's mailing list.
Melt Mail is a slick service, I'll just stick to using it with my "registration" gMail account.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
alexishinds said 11:05AM on 11-25-2008
I see a privacy statement there. :)
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mad said 11:56AM on 11-25-2008
Compared to other services, Melt Mail cares about your privacy!
First of all, Melt Mail doesn't store any of the e-mails you forward using this service. The system is simply not interested in them. :)
Secondly, the e-mail address you give to us, is only stored during the period of time you define due choosing a melting point. After this period, the system deletes it and never looks back.
There will also be no backup of these e-mail addresses!
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dtma said 12:43PM on 11-25-2008
Spambox is better, it offers up to a year of forwarding.
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Pete said 10:05AM on 11-27-2008
But somehow, spambox is not working for me since weeks...
Corey Charette said 11:21PM on 12-10-2008
This is a great site. Was mentioned on this week's episode of 'The Tech Gang Show" also. You can find it at http://techgangshow.com/episode-2/
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