Show HN: TrashEmail – Telegram-based disposable mail service

WhatsApp reverse engineering happens all the time. There's news channels out there with people dedicated to being the first to announce references to upcoming features every update.

The same can be said of Signal or any other chat application distributed through Google Play. How do you know the binary corresponds to the source? Good luck getting reproducible builds on Android or iOS. If you want to be sure your chat app is secure, you need to review and compile the code every time. And, of course, you need the knowledge and skills of a good cryptographer to determine hidden backdoors in the algorithms.

Whatsapp is reasonably secure, as long as you don't upload your unencrypted chats to Google Drive (the backup functionality). Telegram, with E2E enabled, hasn't been proven insecure enough despite its weird custom crypto scheme. However, WhatsApp brings E2E to group chats where Telegram needs manual configuration in private chats to do so. If we want to bring E2E to the masses, WhatsApp is the best option for now.

I'm hoping Matrix will change this or Telegram will implement proper crypto, but until then, WhatsApp is probably the best option we have.

Remember the old Zawinski's Law? "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

In 2020, r/mail/chat/g

Telegram is such a great messenger to integrate with. It is basically just "import telegram" and you're almost done. I built the Telegram integration for Histre in just a weekend: https://histre.com/blog/take-notes-with-telegram/ This lets you take notes on Telegram either directly or via share intent, so that you can save links etc from your phone without installing another app. I think I also watched a movie and went for a hike that weekend, so it's not like it was an intense weekend of furious typing.

I wish other messengers made it as easy. I'd love to integrate with Signal, and probably will do so soon, as a good number of my users are on Signal. But the number of steps listed just makes it easy to put it off for later.

If you haven't integrated Telegram with your app yet, I'd suggest you look into it. You'd be surprised how easy it is.

I think the sane and simple API approach is going to make Telegram eat all other messengers. But I'm a programmer, so maybe I just want that to be true ;)

First, this bot doesn't work. I was using this https://etlgr.io for disposable emails and it worked no stress.

My Outlook app kept getting closed by android and I kept missing emails. So I created a disposable etlgr email to get bank notifications. Created a rule in Outlook.com to send balance notifications anytime money enters or leaves my account.

Also a few times when discussing with clients, sent the email title to the bot.

A few months back, there was one "a page a day" book reading service that came on hacker news. Created an email just for it.

Another to receive manga notifications.

Etlgr recently became a subscription service and that was the end.

MY OTHER USES FOR TELEGRAM

RSS feed reader for sites. Also created a private channel for my friends that posts 100% free udemy courses. It's been completely hands off for over a year now.

Why Telegram Rocks

My telegram account is accessible from 4 different devices - Two phones and two laptops (6 client apps).

Could switch off the phone with the number registered to telegram and I'll still be able to chat. With WhatsApp this is impossible.

I could lose my sim card, both phones and one laptop. But if I still have access to one client, I can login on fresh devices.

This is because once you're registered, telegram sends the OTP to the installed clients instead of SMS.

One awesome stuff they do is that after a successful logon on a new device, the notification is broadcast to all logged in client apps. Deleting the notification in one device will not remove it in others.

Making it harder for account takeovers to happen stealthily.

Also newly logged in clients cannot terminate older sessions.

CHATTING

The ability to edit already sent text in telegram is awesome. Make a mistake? Correct it.

Telegram does not leave a "deleted" stamp when you delete a message unlike WhatsApp.

In telegram you can delete everything in your chats from the other person's device.

WhatsApp allows you to delete your chats from the other person's phone. Telegram tops that by allowing you to delete the other person's words from their own phone!

Without this, quoted chats will have empty placeholders alerting the other party.

FILE SIZE Limit

Up to 1.5GB per file

Telegram Rocks.

Thanks! I didn't know Xiaomi made such sensors too. They are definitely one of the brands that I recognize.

Reproducible builds are a red herring, they do nothing to defend against bugdoors.