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Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone

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

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Post by mynameisvlad »

SpikeDad wrote: post #30
mynameisvlad wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple provides a disposable email ? AFAIK it provides a forwarding address, which is similar but distinct from what this is.

It's created automatically (or manually) for any email prompt. It is automatically set for the domain so fill in provides the forward address automatically. You can turn this off and you can delete the forward address anytime you want. What else would one need from a disposable email?

A disposable email in the form provided by this service, the emails essentially go into a black void. They don't go to your normal inbox like the ones provided by Apple do.

It's a subtle difference.

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

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Post by hardwaresofton »

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.

I don't know one, but if you have Apple devices, Hide My Email may be a nice effort-free solution for you:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425

No one would dare block @icloud.com.

Also have you consider plus addresses or . addresses ("." is preferred if your email provider supports it -- harder to assume that you can just remove the dots for downstream spammers).

[EDIT] Did some quick searching, and the F/OSS community has delivered! There are at least two you could use:

- https://github.com/JoeBiellik/pleasenospam

- https://github.com/haydenwoodhead/burner.kiwi

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

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Post by warent »

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.

if you're using google apps (bring on the downvotes, for good reason tbh) then this is just email aliasing / fwding.

Point being that I image many mail providers offer such a thing

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

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Post by technick »

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.

I run a small digitalocean instance with just postfix running on it that forwards to my real email address at gmail, using aliases. It takes me under 15 seconds to log in, create a new aliases, and run 'newaliases'. This way I can keep aliases around that are important and when they start spamming, just go delete it until I need it again.

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

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Post by hardwaresofton »

technick wrote: post #35
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.

I run a small digitalocean instance with just postfix running on it that forwards to my real email address at gmail, using aliases. It takes me under 15 seconds to log in, create a new aliases, and run 'newaliases'. This way I can keep aliases around that are important and when they start spamming, just go delete it until I need it again.

If you're considering running postfix, IMO you should consider running maddy/chasquid instead:

https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy

https://blitiri.com.ar/p/chasquid/

They're simpler, and maddy (at least) has an S3 backend now.

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

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Post by jawr »

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.

I made one (running on catcher.mx.ax) available here https://github.com/jawr/catcher not much in the way of documentation I’m afraid :(

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

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Post by twobitshifter »

As someone who used Mailinator for a long time, the world can always use more of these services - what’s unfortunate is that it’s an arms race. As domains are known to be fronts for disposable emails, they just get blocked. Apple’s hide my email is great because they cannot block iCloud, and it would be great if Google or Microsoft offered similar services.

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

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Post by SoftTalker »

zinxq wrote: post #17
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…

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.

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

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Post by Saris »

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.

AnonAddy https://github.com/anonaddy/docker

Alternatively just set up catch-all on your existing email for the domain, no extra apps needed.

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