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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.

Filed under: Utilities, E-mail, Freeware

Clean up messy emails with Email Stripper



Haphazardly forwarded email is huge annoyance for many people. We're not talking about the ones with subject lines like, "OMG! Check this out!!!!" or "Microsoft is giving away a million dollars!!!!" (though those are super-annoying too). No, we mean the emails that have already been forwarded 37 times and land in our inbox looking something like this:

>>>>>>>>>The company party will>>>>>>>>>be this >>>>>>>>>Saturday>>>>>>>>> at the
>>>>>>>>>Pavilion. >>The CEO will bring the beer and >>>>>a lampshade, a sign-up sheet for
>>>>>>>>>desserts is in>>>> the break room. Plan on a limbo>>contest and Jello >>>shots, dress
>>>>>>>>>casual.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The spiffy free download Email Stripper 2.2 (Windows and Linux under WINE only) rescues emails like this by yanking all the stray symbols and weird spaces, then restoring it to its original easy-to-read format. Simply paste the wonky email (that's the technical term for it, you know) into Email Stripper, click a button and -- presto -- the text is cleaned up and ready to be cut and pasted into a new email.

>>Piece>>>of>>cake.

[Via MakeUseOf]

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