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Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone
- SpikeDad 4y agoJust to remind folks Apple provides this service for all iOS devices automatically.
- rodric 4y agoNot quite true. Hide My Email is included in iCloud+, which is a paid subscription service.
- skellera 4y agoFree for services that use Sign in with Apple. Need iCloud+ for generating addresses outside of that. Also, 99 cents a month for the cheapest plan isn’t too bad for everything it gives you. If you’re in the iOS/Apple ecosystem, it’s a worthwhile purchase.
- tr1ll10nb1ll 4y agoiCloud+ is extremely affordable at $1/mo, tho. It's- sort of like free. And you get 50GB storage as part of that $1 plan.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoApple provides a disposable email? AFAIK it provides a forwarding address, which is similar but distinct from what this is.
- scblzn 4y agoAfaik it's bit more complex than a forwarding address as it allows replies from the user behind too (while still being protected) [1][2] [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple/sign_in_with_apple_js/communicating_using_the_private_email_relay_service https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple... [2] https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/use-hide-my-email-mlhl47c969f8/mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/use-hide-my-email-mlhl4...
- SpikeDad 4y agoIt's created automatically (or manually) for any email prompt. It is automatically set for the domain so fill in provides the forward address automatically. You can turn this off and you can delete the forward address anytime you want. What else would one need from a disposable email?
- mynameisvlad 4y agoA disposable email in the form provided by this service, the emails essentially go into a black void. They don't go to your normal inbox like the ones provided by Apple do. It's a subtle difference.
- fffrantz 4y agoDuckduckgo [0] as well. [0] https://duckduckgo.com/email/ https://duckduckgo.com/email/
- ivberrOg 4y agothat leads to a prompt to install a browser addon (for me).. this might be helpful https://duckduckgo.com/email/faq https://duckduckgo.com/email/faq
- pandemicsoul 4y agoThe 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 around...
- gruez 4y agoThe "disposable" in "disposable email" implies that you don't intend on keeping the address around. Under that use case, the service disappearing after a year or two doesn't cause any issues, because you don't have anything persistent attached to those emails in the first place. Besides, many (most?) other email services prevent you from recovering an email address (usually because a random address is assigned to you and there's no way to pick/recover a previous address), so you're already discouraged from using them for any persistent services.
- itake 4y agoThe emails are disposable, not the service. This causes issues b/c you're constantly having to find and change providers.
- milosmns 4y agoEh, I don't know if that's really a problem. Query "10 minute mail" in Google gives hundreds of results within a millisecond, so... you do this lookup once in 2 years and you're done? Really don't feel like it's a big deal, at least for me
- itake 4y agoLots of websites are wise about disposable email and reject those domains. Query "10 minute mail" and you get a list of blacklisted email domains. The services that new or don't have much traction aren't blocked yet.
- tbrownaw 4y agoSure, but how long until the sites that require an email to set up a new account add this to their list of blocked providers (or just switch to requiring a sms number like some of the bigger sites already do)? Or ar least I'm assuming that's a primary use case for something like this.
- vmoore 4y agoFor those wondering about the domain it's a service called EU.org which allows for free domain names (since 1996!) https://nic.eu.org/ https://nic.eu.org/
- isuleman 4y ago*subdomain
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- rikkipitt 4y agohttps://www.paced.email https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email https://www.vend.email are two services that I developed that provide "disposable" email addresses. Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability to add team members, rules, etc and paces your mail into regular digests. Vend Email is similar to Firefox Relay but has the added benefit of email forwarder transferability to other users.
- teeray 4y agoAnyone have a good self-hosted version of this? I’d like disposable email addresses that won’t get added to block lists.
- hardwaresofton 4y agoI don't know one, but if you have Apple devices, Hide My Email may be a nice effort-free solution for you: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425 No one would dare block @icloud.com. Also have you consider plus addresses or . addresses ("." is preferred if your email provider supports it -- harder to assume that you can just remove the dots for downstream spammers). [EDIT] Did some quick searching, and the F/OSS community has delivered! There are at least two you could use: - https://github.com/JoeBiellik/pleasenospam https://github.com/JoeBiellik/pleasenospam - https://github.com/haydenwoodhead/burner.kiwi https://github.com/haydenwoodhead/burner.kiwi
- technick 4y agoI 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.
- hardwaresofton 4y agoIf you're considering running postfix, IMO you should consider running maddy/chasquid instead: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy https://blitiri.com.ar/p/chasquid/ https://blitiri.com.ar/p/chasquid/ They're simpler, and maddy (at least) has an S3 backend now.
- selcuka 4y agoIsn't it easier to just catch-all and blacklist the spamming ones?
- warent 4y agoif you're using google apps (bring on the downvotes, for good reason tbh) then this is just email aliasing / fwding. Point being that I image many mail providers offer such a thing
- twobitshifter 4y agoAs someone who used Mailinator for a long time, the world can always use more of these services - what’s unfortunate is that it’s an arms race. As domains are known to be fronts for disposable emails, they just get blocked. Apple’s hide my email is great because they cannot block iCloud, and it would be great if Google or Microsoft offered similar services.
- gummybuns 4y agonice! heres my similar project - https://wumbo.co https://wumbo.co - https://addons.mozilla.org/lt/firefox/addon/wumbo/ https://addons.mozilla.org/lt/firefox/addon/wumbo/ - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wumbo/edkhadeemcopbnpejegflkkdfdiocigc 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
- charles_f 4y agoI wish those many disposable email service would opensource. Running my own would be the best. I built one a long time ago that was getting emails piped to but it was cpanel and by no means a generic email service I could deploy anywhere
- threecoins 4y agoIf you are a fastmail user, they provide a similar option. You can create masked email on @fastmail.com that redirect to your inbox and then delete it when you are done.