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20 temporary email services - how many do you need?

Spam MotelHere 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.

Filed under: Security, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Productivity, Web services, Freeware

10 Minute Mail - temporary email addresses

10 Minute MailOne spam-fighting option I've never tried is a temporary email address. There are a number of similar services out there, but 10 Minute Mail appears to be amongst the most simple (which is a good thing). Simply visit the site and click the provided link, and you're given an email address that is valid for the next 10 minutes. Use that temporary email address to register at those pesky sites that want you to give up your email address privacy for ever and ever in exchange for testing out their service. As you receive replies to the address, such as registration links or whatever, you are able to actually interact and reply yourself using the site, but only for the given 10 minutes. If you think you're running out of time, there's a link to get an extra 10 minutes. This is useful for those sites that take their time getting your registration link to you.

My only issue with this service is that it's extremely obvious what you're doing - the email addresses it provides look like this: mail16063@10minutemail.com. It might be nice if they provided a different domain name for the email addresses they give out. Just a thought.

Overall, 10 Minute Mail works as advertised, and you can't argue with that.

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