Best Temporary Email Services
Stumble it!Ever heard of a disposable or Temporary email services? Here’s a nifty defination from Wikipedia:
“Disposable Email Addressing (DEA) refers to an alternative way of sharing and managing e-mail addressing. DEA aims to set up a new, unique e-mail address for every contact or entity, making a point-to-point connection between the sender and the recipient. Subsequently, if anyone compromises the address or utilises it in connection with any e-mail abuse, the address-owner can easily cancel (or “dispose” of) it without affecting any other contact. Following the cancellation or replacement of a disposable e-mail address, the (ex-)owner need notify no more than one person/contact of the change.”
In other words, these disposable and temporary email services can become and are popular to fight spam (In a different manner), since they expire after a certain period of time. So you can prevent any sort of spam emails and after you’re done, let them expire + there isn’t any registration etc required (Usually).
Mailinator is one of the most popular Temporary / Disposable email service out there. It’s interface is very simple, temporary accounts are created when email arrives for them. Let me tell you how it works. For example, you want someone to send you an email which you don’t want in your inbox, goto Mailinator & on the left side you’ll see some pre-given domain names like mailinator2.com, sogetthis.com, mailin8r.com, mailinator.net, spamherelots.com etc. Ask the sender to send you an email at lets say ANewMorning@sogetthis.com. When they do, type in ANewMorning@sogetthis.com in “Check your inbox” box and click Go. You’ll see the received email there.
Gureilla Mail is another great temporary, disposable email service that does the job on fighting spam emails. Features include:
1. Get an antispam temporary email address on their website.
2. Use this email address to signup for a service you only planning to use once.
3. Receive the confirmation e-mail(s) in your temporary antispam inbox
4. After 15 minutes your temporary email address will expire and all mail send to this address will get caught by their antispam filter!
You can either make up a temporary email address or generate one by the click on a mouse. And you don’t have to worry about it staying there, it automatically expires after an hour, though you can renew it by clicking “Give me full 1 hour again”.
Mail Expire is a cool, free temporary email service. It’s a simple service that gives you the ability to keeping your inbox spam free. You can easily create a free email address for yourself, for a For a mentioned period of time, which expires from 12 hours to 3 months. Best thing about Mail Expire is that anything sent to this email alias will be passed on to you at your actual email address.
I never had a chance to discover more because I didn’t needed to. The above mentioned services do everything I want them to do. If you think there are services actually better, do mention.