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Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by goodlook33 »

StavrosK wrote: post #10

My favorite disposable email provider, by far, is 33mail.com, mainly because the addresses don't have to be disposable. You give a different email address to each service, and, if you get spam, you know the culprit and can block them right away. Brilliant.

Thanks for the tip. I always forget about these because the domains they use are usually too silly (they should just let us use raw IP addresses); and also because I use email so infrequently. Mailinator seems the only one I remember. There's another disposable email provider... I can't remember the name... the accounts are time-limited. Truthfully, it's an email forwarder; they ask for a personal email address. (Maybe you could forward to another disposable email provider.) You can choose to have the account last hours or days. I know I've seen it mentioned on HN.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by goodlook33 »

asimjalis wrote: post #16

One thing I like about receiveee more than mailinator and 33mail is that you can start using it without signing up. The user interaction is very smooth.

I justn looked at 33mail and they ask for a signup.

As re_todd says, mailinator asks for nothing from the user. The accounts are created automatically.

Just send mail to some-new-account-foobarbaz@mailinator.com and an account (user) is automatically created. No passwords. No sign in.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by chockablock »

kornnflake wrote: post #11
aaronpk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The string in my URL is different but very similar to the string in the email address. Curious. 1QdVfTRH vs 1QdVfTS1

That's not your mailaddress in the URL. It's like a password to access the inbox later :)

Hmm... But why should the 'password' URL be so similar to the mail address. Doesn't this mean that if I know your mail address, I can fairly easily guess the secret URL to let me see that inbox?

(Granted that in the most common use case, if I know the email address, I probably know what's in the inbox, since I am likely the person who sent the message. But still, why not make these 2 different random strings?)

A couple more examples: 1QjYwHNM vs 1QjYwHOc 1Qk07A9x vs 1Qk07A9X

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by goodlook33 »

dragondilesh wrote: post #14

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html is also quite nice.

Looks good. I could've sworn there was another one like this. Maybe this is the one, or this one is a newer clone?

Like Mailinator, this is a great idea.

Kudos to these guys for putting their mail admin skills to good use.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by gm_ »

jbellis wrote: post #8

http://mailinator.com/ has been around for a while, and allows you to pick your own inbox name, as well as many alternate domains.

Note that @mailinator.com email addresses are blocked at a significant number of sites due to its popularity. Throwaway email sites that alternate between several different domains work best.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by elchief »

DanBC wrote: post #21

This is interesting; thanks for sharing. It's only useful until websites start filtering out the receivee domain - that's been happening with a few disposable email addresses. And the highlight on " We even automatically click on common activation links for you" was a bit confusing. I was expecting a link to a page about the pointlessness of Challenge Response. And what I really dearly want is an anonymous way to sen…

http://tormail.net/

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by jonknee »

gm_ wrote: post #45
jbellis wrote: post #8

http://mailinator.com/ has been around for a while, and allows you to pick your own inbox name, as well as many alternate domains.

Note that @mailinator.com email addresses are blocked at a significant number of sites due to its popularity. Throwaway email sites that alternate between several different domains work best.

Mailinator has a ton of different domains. You can check them all from mailinator.com though.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by nwh »

impendia wrote: post #39
DanBC wrote: post #21

This is interesting; thanks for sharing. It's only useful until websites start filtering out the receivee domain - that's been happening with a few disposable email addresses. And the highlight on " We even automatically click on common activation links for you" was a bit confusing. I was expecting a link to a page about the pointlessness of Challenge Response. And what I really dearly want is an anonymous way to sen…

Regarding your last point: possibly technical ignorance on my part, but is there some reason signing up for, say, a gmail account doesn't suffice?

A gmail account is tied to your identity, an absolute pain to sign up for, and requires your mobile number.
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