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Will you add support for Bring-Your-Own-Domain? This HN commenter is definitely interested.
We hadn't considered it, but it's an interesting idea. We'd have to think through how to make it work, there'd be some interesting interplay with routing and mail servers.
Nice idea, but I suspect if it gets any traction, many services will just block maskmail addresses. That's why mailinator uses 100s of different domains and makes it really hard to get a list of all of them.
Which also means users can't use them either. Sometimes I want to use a different mailinator domain, but loading the homepage usually only shows the known domains.
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That works great if you control your own mail server, but most people don't these days. :)
The reason for this is of course that it's a complete pain to work with the large email providers (say, you want to send an email to gmail) if you have your own service. Email has been far from truly decentralised for a while now.
Though my main appeal is the burner credit cards.
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I imagine they're worried about their service being used to send spam, which would trash their reputation as a sender.
You can’t spam using either of those protocols.
2. POP3/IMAP your email to your bot, clicking any links
3. Write spammy comments
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Note it says "anonymous", not "disposable". > the whole point of a disposable e-mail address it's that you just can use it instantly and never reveal your real e-mail addresses to anyone For you maybe. For others the point might be "never reveal my real e-mail address to the sites I give disposable addresses to, be able to keep receiving e-mails for some of them long-term and not having them publicly exposed to every…
Why not create a Gmail account for that purpose then? (Or Yahoo/Outlook if you're concerned with data collection.) The amount of hassle is the same. With Mailinator I just type khdgfkasjdhfg in the register field, then then type Ctrl+L "maili" [Enter], paste khdgfkasjdhfg in the (already active) "Check Any Inbox" field and bang! - I'm already there, always. Maybe there's something I don't see here.
Maskmail essentially does this for you with extreme convenience.
A bit off topic but does anyone know of an email service that doesn't require a pre-existing email account, doesn't require ID, is TOR friendly and accepts cryptocurrency as payment? It seems like this should be an obvious service but I have a hard time finding one.
tor friendly. free (runs of donations). no email or id required.
also has tons of cool domain names to choose from. some of my favorites: horsefucker.org, cumallover.me, nigge.rs, rape.lol, nuke.africa
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The reason for this is of course that it's a complete pain to work with the large email providers (say, you want to send an email to gmail) if you have your own service. Email has been far from truly decentralised for a while now.
It's not that bad really. Been doing it since more than a decade.
Nice idea, but I suspect if it gets any traction, many services will just block maskmail addresses. That's why mailinator uses 100s of different domains and makes it really hard to get a list of all of them.
I've used sneakemail for a very long time, but I've found that it's actually been resulting in worse things than simply having my registration blocked.
* Credit Karma banned my account (that I'd had for eight years)
* HP canceled my order for a laptop AFTER IT SHIPPED, recalling the package
I've had to switch to sneakemail only for things that I wouldn't provide my name to anyway.