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Re: Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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Post by Komodai »

SoftTalker wrote: post #39
zinxq wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Mailinator https://www.mailinator.com has been around since it's inception in 2003. It offers other services now, but the "disposable email" part is still there as it was from the start.

Mailinator addresses, and other "disposable" email service addresses, are often rejected by sites that ask for an email address to create an account. There's sort of a race condition between how quickly new "anonymous" email services appear and how quickly they are banned by other sites.

Then just use temp-mail.org, they rotate domains very frequently, they have been around for some time now as well.

Re: Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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Post by Komodai »

amelius wrote: post #12
deadalus wrote: post #11

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https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it regularly on shady sites.

Do you have something similar for telephone numbers? (Often required to receive verification codes in text messages).

For that, I would just recommend 5sim or smspva, personally used them, pretty solid.

As long as you expect to only use the number once then they should be fine.

Re: Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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Post by Komodai »

teeray wrote: post #32

Anyone have a good self-hosted version of this? I’d like disposable email addresses that won’t get added to block lists.

Personally I just do:

A domain + Cloudflare Email Forwarding (with catch-all)

or

A domain + Catch-all on my GSuite (or Workspace, whatever it's called now...) subscription

Re: Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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Post by ruste »

pandemicsoul wrote: post #4

The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't trust any of these services to stick…

https://www.guerrillamail.com/ has been around as long as I can remember.

Re: Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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Post by itake »

milosmns wrote: post #24
itake wrote: post #23

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The emails are disposable, not the service. This causes issues b/c you're constantly having to find and change providers.

Eh, I don't know if that's really a problem. Query "10 minute mail" in Google gives hundreds of results within a millisecond, so... you do this lookup once in 2 years and you're done? Really don't feel like it's a big deal, at least for me

Lots of websites are wise about disposable email and reject those domains. Query "10 minute mail" and you get a list of blacklisted email domains.

The services that new or don't have much traction aren't blocked yet.

Re: Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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Post by milosmns »

itake wrote: post #55
milosmns wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh, I don't know if that's really a problem. Query "10 minute mail" in Google gives hundreds of results within a millisecond, so... you do this lookup once in 2 years and you're done? Really don't feel like it's a big deal, at least for me

Lots of websites are wise about disposable email and reject those domains. Query "10 minute mail" and you get a list of blacklisted email domains. The services that new or don't have much traction aren't blocked yet.

Yes, that's precisely why I'm querying more often than bookmarking sites. They "expire" soon so I kinda have to find replacements. Apple's situation is interesting, I don't think sites can ban Apple's iCloud completely. It may also be an opportunity for Gmail to copy the feature..
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