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Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by AgentConundrum »

jonknee wrote: post #49
gm_ wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You can't get a full list of them on mailinator.com, since it makes it easy for a misguided website administrator to just ban the whole list.

Instead, the site will randomly show one of the alternate domains on every page load. At one point, it would even give 'gmail.com' and other legitimate domains as the alternate if you tried to scrape them too quickly (or rather, they hypothetically-yet-definitely-didn't-do that).[1]

Today, the alternate domains are shown as an image[2], and even that isn't a complete list, since other people can simply redirect mail incoming to their domains to mailinator.com. Mailinator explicitly condones this.[3]

[1] http://mailinator.blogspot.ca/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-ba...

[2] http://www.mailinator.com/get_alt_domain

[3] http://mailinator.blogspot.ca/2007/10/new-mailinator-alterna... (end of second paragraph)

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by nwh »

cdcarter wrote: post #53
nwh wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They don't require mobile numbers, and setting up a throwaway gmail takes about a minute, not tied to your identity at all. You don't even have to click and activation link, if you pass the CAPTCHA. That being said, they certainly have IP logs, so make sure to enable Tor.

They've enforced mobile numbers for quite a while now, though I suspect that might be country dependant. I can't sign up for an account without one, through my normal or torified IP (I tried several).

http://i.imgur.com/l9diG.png

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by eli »

chadrs wrote: post #55
eli wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can even donate a domain or have your own "private" mailinator domain by simply pointing the MX record for a domain or subdomain you control to their server.

I've always wondered why a site that blocks mailinator sites wouldn't just do an MX lookup on any domain you put in and check for mailinator redirects.

How much effort are you willing to expend to fight users who insist on giving you a throwaway account?

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by laureny »

The main challenge for these kinds of services is that they're only as useful as they are unknown.

If they start getting popular, they either

- start getting slammed with volumes of spam that are so high that the creator needs to start paying some serious hosting fees to keep the service running

- get blacklisted

Mailinator has outlasted all its competitors because it addressed both problems very early on. I wish receiveee best luck but I'm betting that it won't be around in a year from now.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by rgovind »

Great tool. I would like to ask HN folks opinion on another kind of email service. Its quiet possible that google or yahoo can boot you from their service whenever they want...even if you don't think you violated their TOS. Do you guys think there is room for a service in which, once you signup, you will never be booted from the service? All data will be yours, or after you are gone, it will belong to your descendants.

Of course, there are spam considerations here..but I think they have to be worked out.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by cryptoz »

cdcarter wrote: post #53
nwh wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They don't require mobile numbers, and setting up a throwaway gmail takes about a minute, not tied to your identity at all. You don't even have to click and activation link, if you pass the CAPTCHA. That being said, they certainly have IP logs, so make sure to enable Tor.

I have not been able to register a gmail address without a mobile number for about four years.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by veemjeem »

cryptoz wrote: post #67
cdcarter wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't require mobile numbers, and setting up a throwaway gmail takes about a minute, not tied to your identity at all. You don't even have to click and activation link, if you pass the CAPTCHA. That being said, they certainly have IP logs, so make sure to enable Tor.

I have not been able to register a gmail address without a mobile number for about four years.

You can still do it, you just have to do the captcha thing.

Here, I created one just now, for you:

login/pass: blah44141@gmail.com/mypass125

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by vidyesh »

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox.

http://mailinator.com/

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

https://www.guerrillamail.com/

http://www.dispostable.com/

http://dudmail.com/

http://getairmail.com/

http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email

http://spambox.us/

http://www.yopmail.com/en/

https://ssl.trashmail.net/

http://www.fakeinbox.com/

http://www.fakemailgenerator.com/

http://www.tempinbox.com/

If I am really paranoid or just on tor then I use http://tormail.net/

Now adding https://receiveee.com/

One of the reasons why I have a list of all these disposable email services is because some do get blocked from websites.

Eg. mailinator : I loved the service but its mostly blocked everywhere now. ( I know there are alt domains for mailinator )

Really appreciate all these services.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by bredren »

https://gli.ph Cloaked Email is more convenient than these services and can offer you the same or better privacy.

receiveee looks great for incoming one-time emails like spam and confirmation emails. Gliph allows two-way email, at the cost of having to create an account.

The cloak address you generate on Gliph forwards mail to your real inbox. when you reply it appears to come from an cloak address.

More info in ReadWrite article: http://readwrite.com/2012/08/14/use-this-app-to-create-anony...

Gliph also sets you up with a secure picture messaging tool for iOS and Android and a serious privacy policy.

Disclosure: I am co-founder and ceo of Gliph. Happy to answer questions.

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