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Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by mdaniel »

this is not "open source," it's source available as the repo is missing any licensing terms. I dunno what the legal standing is of these package management fields https://github.com/psarna/edgemail/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L5> since I believe at least npm defaults to some very liberal license that almost no one looks at any further and puts a sibling license file in their repo with the actual terms

Also, bold move implementing your own smtpd: https://github.com/psarna/edgemail/blob/master/src/smtp.rs#L...

Re: Open-source disposable email service

#12

Post by abhinavg »

browningstreet wrote: post #7

I got one of those duck.com addresses but I have no idea what it is or how to re-access it.

I'm a happy duck.com address user. I can answer these questions:

What it is: It gives you private throwaway email addresses. Instead of signing up for a website with @gmail.com, use @duck.com. It will forward the email to @gmail.com after removing any trackers from it. It also lets you generate @duck.com addresses on demand. If you sign up for something with @duck.com, and they start spamming you, you can turn the email address off without doing anything to @gmail.com or @duck.com.

How to re-access it: Information about your duck.com address is stored in that browser. If you use the Browser extension, that remembers it. You simply need to log into that email address from your current browser. To do this, visit https://duckduckgo.com/email/, click on "I already have a Duck address", and enter your original @duck.com address. It will email you a one-time password to @gmail.com, and you'll be back in again.

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

macintux wrote: post #8
itake wrote: post #6

Websites like this always seem to shutdown. Now I can’t access any accounts I created with them (since I can’t password recovery or change the email).

I’ve been a happy customer of https://33mail.com/ for years. It’s a different style of offering with a similar purpose and apparently a sustainable business model.

Fastmail supports something like this, but the process of adding a new outbound alias every time I need one is not streamlined enough, so the conversation goes like this:

> otherperson@ABC.com to burner123@subdomain.mydomain.com: Blah blah

> me@mydomain.com to otherperson@ABC.com: Blah back at you!

> otherpersonABC@ABC.com to me@mydomain.com: Who are you and why are you responding to my message to burner123@subdomain.mydomain.com?

Does 33mail make it easy to continue the conversation under the alias?

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by KMnO4 »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #14
macintux wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been a happy customer of https://33mail.com/ for years. It’s a different style of offering with a similar purpose and apparently a sustainable business model.

Fastmail supports something like this, but the process of adding a new outbound alias every time I need one is not streamlined enough, so the conversation goes like this: > otherperson@ABC.com to burner123@subdomain.mydomain.com: Blah blah > me@mydomain.com to otherperson@ABC.com: Blah back at you! > otherpersonABC@ABC.com to me@mydomain.com: Who are you and why are you responding to my message to burner123@subdomain…

Yes, 33mail can modify the reply-to so that it proxies the emails back through the alias.

So emailing longrandomstring@33mail.com will reply TO the original address FROM the alias address.

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by johnklos »

mteam88 wrote: post #13

I would love something like this that forwards to a gmail address

That can't work because Google does content-based filtering. They blame the forwarder for any spam or anything forwarded that's spam-like, and there's no way to designate a source as a legitimate (that is, don't blame it) forwarder.

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by burnished »

mdaniel wrote: post #11

this is not "open source," it's source available as the repo is missing any licensing terms. I dunno what the legal standing is of these package management fields https://github.com/psarna/edgemail/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L5 > since I believe at least npm defaults to some very liberal license that almost no one looks at any further and puts a sibling license file in their repo with the actual terms Also, bold move imp…

So the absence of a license means it defaults to exclusive copy right, but can advertising it as open source be construed as a 'license'? Or more broadly can express written or verbal permission count?

Just interested in it hypothetically, in practice specifying a license in the text seems like a no brainer

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by burnished »

itake wrote: post #6

Websites like this always seem to shutdown. Now I can’t access any accounts I created with them (since I can’t password recovery or change the email).

I believe this one is for temporary and PUBLIC emails, probably not like anything you have used before if account recovery is a concern.

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by doodlesdev »

burnished wrote: post #17
mdaniel wrote: post #11

this is not "open source," it's source available as the repo is missing any licensing terms. I dunno what the legal standing is of these package management fields https://github.com/psarna/edgemail/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L5 > since I believe at least npm defaults to some very liberal license that almost no one looks at any further and puts a sibling license file in their repo with the actual terms Also, bold move imp…

So the absence of a license means it defaults to exclusive copy right, but can advertising it as open source be construed as a 'license'? Or more broadly can express written or verbal permission count? Just interested in it hypothetically, in practice specifying a license in the text seems like a no brainer

   > So the absence of a license means it defaults to exclusive copy right
Yes

   >  but can advertising it as open source be construed as a 'license'
I'm pretty sure the answer is no. There are no terms specified, no definition provided to what "open-source" is, and no information as to _what_ is licensed as open-source (i.e. the files, the compilation result, etc.).

General consensus with most licensing schemes is to add a license header to the top of every file, or otherwise specify that all files in a certain repository are subject to that license in a clear manner that everyone accessing these files will have access to (i.e. README file).

Re: Open-source disposable email service

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Post by KomoD »

itake wrote: post #6

Websites like this always seem to shutdown. Now I can’t access any accounts I created with them (since I can’t password recovery or change the email).

> Now I can’t access any accounts I created with them (since I can’t password recovery or change the email)

Yeah... disposable

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