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Show HN: Hidemail.us – Temporary email redirects, easy

4 points by herbst 10y ago

herbst 10y ago
Just a quick hack i build around ForwardMX (In ShowHN a few hours ago) as i got bored after finally finishing that :) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416966
gus_massa 10y ago
> Emails do not get saved. No logs. 100% private on swiss servers I appreciate your effort to keep privacy, but I think it's more realistic something like the old policy of http://www.mailinator.com http://www.mailinator.com privacy: > So if the government issued a subpeona to Mailinator to divulge emails or logs, you'd rat me out? Holy crap, yes. I'm not going to jail for you, I have a boyish face and very (very) supple skin. > Here's the short version- Mailinator/Outscheme/Paul does not keep/store/archive ANY emails in the system beyond the time that they live in the box normally. In other words, if I can get an email, that means you can too simply by checking the box. We have had law enforcement already approach us to retrieve emails - it simply can't be done. There is nothing to retrieve once the email is deleted.
- ergot 10y ago
  I prefer to blackhole everything in a Zoho account with the catchall[1] feature turned on, so I can just type random crap as the username when signing up like: asdferhgg@generic.domain The trick is to keep that domain renewed for as long as you're alive so nobody can take new ownership and pwn all your accounts as a result. [1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/adminconsole/catch-all-setup.html https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/adminconsole/catch-all-setup....
  - herbst 10y ago
    I do that too! (hence the service this service is build on). I even have a domain especially for stuff that is going to spam me. Back when i was still a kid in school without access to a credit card i used a lot such services as the one above. Especially forwarding ones, as i like to have any details in my central inbox. I realize that the majority of the HN crowd has found better solutions meanwhile ;)
- herbst 10y ago
  Heh, true. I had something like that but it did not look so well. But you are right, its simply not true the email IS saved for about 1-5 seconds. Going to update, thanks for the input!

4 points by herbst 10y ago

Just a quick hack i build around ForwardMX (In ShowHN a few hours ago) as i got bored after finally finishing that :) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13416966

gus_massa 10y ago

> Emails do not get saved. No logs. 100% private on swiss servers I appreciate your effort to keep privacy, but I think it's more realistic something like the old policy of http://www.mailinator.com http://www.mailinator.com privacy: > So if the government issued a subpeona to Mailinator to divulge emails or logs, you'd rat me out? Holy crap, yes. I'm not going to jail for you, I have a boyish face and very (very) supple skin. > Here's the short version- Mailinator/Outscheme/Paul does not keep/store/archive ANY emails in the system beyond the time that they live in the box normally. In other words, if I can get an email, that means you can too simply by checking the box. We have had law enforcement already approach us to retrieve emails - it simply can't be done. There is nothing to retrieve once the email is deleted.

ergot 10y ago
I prefer to blackhole everything in a Zoho account with the catchall[1] feature turned on, so I can just type random crap as the username when signing up like: asdferhgg@generic.domain The trick is to keep that domain renewed for as long as you're alive so nobody can take new ownership and pwn all your accounts as a result. [1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/adminconsole/catch-all-setup.html https://www.zoho.com/mail/help/adminconsole/catch-all-setup....
- herbst 10y ago
  I do that too! (hence the service this service is build on). I even have a domain especially for stuff that is going to spam me. Back when i was still a kid in school without access to a credit card i used a lot such services as the one above. Especially forwarding ones, as i like to have any details in my central inbox. I realize that the majority of the HN crowd has found better solutions meanwhile ;)
herbst 10y ago
Heh, true. I had something like that but it did not look so well. But you are right, its simply not true the email IS saved for about 1-5 seconds. Going to update, thanks for the input!