I try to create an account, put in a username and matching passwords, but the "create account" button gives me a circle-bar "you can't do that" pointer, with no explanation. Chrome on OSX.
Sorry your password needs to be 8 characters or more
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#72I try to create an account, put in a username and matching passwords, but the "create account" button gives me a circle-bar "you can't do that" pointer, with no explanation. Chrome on OSX.
Good feedback, I'll make it clearer, this is a confusing state
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#73I try to create an account, put in a username and matching passwords, but the "create account" button gives me a circle-bar "you can't do that" pointer, with no explanation. Chrome on OSX.
Good feedback, I'll make it clearer, this is a confusing state
It's fixed now, thanks for trying it out!
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#74Nice 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.
Many services block all mailinator domains by simply doing a live MX record lookup and noting the domain is pointed at mailinator (there are SaaS companies that offer this via an API). Another thing I've noticed is blocking email addresses on domains that do catch-all receiving. It's really frustrating. I've used sneakemail for a very long time, but I've found that it's actually been resulting in worse things than si…
I don't really know anything about MX records or email in general, but couldn't maskmail just always point to the forwarder domain (yahho, gmail, etc) instead of their own hostname?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can’t spam using either of those protocols.
1. Sign up for an account to comment, using a free email account 2. POP3/IMAP your email to your bot, clicking any links 3. Write spammy comments
Sure, you have a point. But I've noticed that nobody blacklists new domains, so using existing providers would be a waste of time for most of such operations.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many services block all mailinator domains by simply doing a live MX record lookup and noting the domain is pointed at mailinator (there are SaaS companies that offer this via an API). Another thing I've noticed is blocking email addresses on domains that do catch-all receiving. It's really frustrating. I've used sneakemail for a very long time, but I've found that it's actually been resulting in worse things than si…
I don't really know anything about MX records or email in general, but couldn't maskmail just always point to the forwarder domain (yahho, gmail, etc) instead of their own hostname?
No, the forwarder has to re-send the message with different envelope information.
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#77This looks extremely similar to https://burnermail.io. And they're free
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#78This looks extremely similar to https://burnermail.io . And they're free
It kinda looks like it's almost a 1 to 1 clone of burnermail.io lol