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#41
nice! heres my similar project

- https://wumbo.co - https://addons.mozilla.org/lt/firefox/addon/wumbo/ - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wumbo/edkhadeemcop...

feel free to use any of that for inspiration or reach out if u wanna bounce around any ideas

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

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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.

Isn't it easier to just catch-all and blacklist the spamming ones?

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

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Just to remind folks Apple provides this service for all iOS devices automatically.

Not quite true. Hide My Email is included in iCloud+, which is a paid subscription service.

iCloud+ is extremely affordable at $1/mo, tho. It's- sort of like free. And you get 50GB storage as part of that $1 plan.

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

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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.

Try my project @ https://pretzelbox.cc.

Here's a video demo of the inbox for your domain @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyBIpO5VkLk

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

#46

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…

Also they quickly get added to black lists so sites wont accept them to register an account.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whenever I try that, the number doesn't work. I either get an error message that the number isn't valid, or the text never arrives. I think I tried with it with Twitter, Instagram and Google (when they asked me for a phone number and I didn't want to give my real one); this was about two years ago. Does anyone have better results?

When it comes to big providers like them you can assume that all numbers are either used by other people already or blocked. If you just don't want to give out your number you could get a second one? Nowadays with eSim it should be easy to get a "pay as you go" number and only ever receive sms.

I eventually did get a second number and was still blocked by Instagram. Perhaps it was because of earlier attempts with temp phone numbers (I didn’t use VPN). But I don’t know for sure. I gave up after that.
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