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MyTemp.email – Temporary Disposable Email
- joshstrange 12y agoI personally do not use services like this but I'd be interested if it provided features like Mailnesia that auto-clicks confirmation links for you. http://mailnesia.com/ http://mailnesia.com/ I have never used Mailnesia but I remember reading about a service like this (may have been this one) and I wanted to add it here in the comments for anyone who missed it.
- husanu 12y agoI will think about this feature.
- Bedon292 12y agoCorrect me if I am wrong, it appears the difference between this and other services is that you cannot get to the inbox without the unique url. That means random people cannot get into the email and people are unlikely to be able to 'forgot my password' on the account you created. I see that as a nice advantage over the other services if that is true.
- tanishalfelven 12y agoPersonally I use http://Fakemailgenerator.com http://Fakemailgenerator.com. These seem to be getting a lot more popular lately..
- JustGotHere 12y agoQuestion to web site owners: do you block these kind of domains from registering to your websites?
- j_s 12y agoOf course there are some that do! But admitting that here isn't appreciated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969545
- sundiver 12y agoThere are reasons to not block these emails and there are good reasons to block them (but you better not admit that on HN if you do). Number 1 reason to reject is: these users never (99.99%) become customers. That said: http://cleanli.st http://cleanli.st An API (beta) to validate email addresses. It knows and dynamically detects thousands of dispoable email domains (including all mailinator domains).
- nikitsaraf 12y agoI have been using http://tempmail.de http://tempmail.de for a while. Its not blocked by any websites (From the ones that I have tried registering with. They are quite a few) And the best part is that you don't need to register an account to use the mailbox. You just need to visit the website and would be presented with a mailbox. You may get as many mailbox you need, by opening it in Private Window, every time.
- stonogo 12y agoHow does this differ from guerrillamail.com?
- RoseO 12y agoIt's probably not blocked by most websites yet :) Edit: Scratch that, it's not a new site.
- arsenide 12y agoI use Mailinator[1] for these purposes (which has hundreds of domains to generate emails for), and I have not been convinced to switch. After going to this site, I have to press a button before an email is generated for me. This doesn't optimize my use of a similar service (in fact, it is slower): I come across some site that needs an email where I prefer not to divulge mine, and I put in something like "signmeup@mailinator.com". I then go to Mailinator and do email confirmation, if necessary, with this open inbox. Some sites don't even require email confirmation to make an account, so I don't even have to deal with Mailinator! How great! In the case of this website, I have to open up a new tab and go here first, note the random email name generated to me, put it in the signup box, and maybe tab back and click a confirmation link mailed to the inbox. Sure, it's a bit nitpicky, but I see no direct improvement made on existing services for my particular use case. If I need a "private inbox" for a website signup, I probably care enough to use my own personal email. [1] http://mailinator.com/ http://mailinator.com/
- joosters 12y agoI can also vouch for mailinator, it's a brilliant service. Also, if you just need quick access to a site, you probably don't even need to make an account. Just go to the 'forgot my password' page and put in sitename@mailinator.com - someone may have previously created an account through mailinator, you can just grab the new password in the email and sign in :)
- nirvdrum 12y agoRampant abuse from Mailinator users is one reason we started requiring credit cards for trials at my last startup.
- Aldo_MX 12y agoRampant abuse from companies is one reason I started using Mailinator. See the vicious circle here? If companies didn't use dark patterns (such as subscribing you automatically to newsletters when you purchase something), people wouldn't need to use disposable email addresses.
- tempodox 12y agoThis looks like it might scratch an itch. Only the description is so meagre and in such a bad English, I can't make heads or tails of it.
- simonswords82 12y agoWhat makes this different to the dozen or so other services that already provide temporary e-mail addresses?
- bmmayer1 12y agoThis one has a .email domain :)
- dwyer 12y agoI've been using http://10minutemail.com/ http://10minutemail.com/ for years now. It's not pretty, but it works and I can't recall any of the generated addresses ever being rejected.
- vblord 12y agoI've been using 10minutemail for years. I've never hand any email address that didn't work or was rejected.
- ikeboy 12y agoWhile we're all linking to our favorite alt, don't forget blur from abine.com. It's a browser extension that adds a "mask my email" button when you select an email field, and forwards those emails to you. Each forwarded email has a link at the top that allows you to turn off that address forever. Also does password generation and other cool stuff.
- rokhayakebe 12y agoAsk HN: Would you use a Google voice for email, one email that acts as a entry door to your other email accounts?
- SquareWheel 12y agoI already have all my email accounts forwarding to my main address, and have configured Gmail to let me send as other addresses. So while it sounds useful, it already kind of exists.
- rokhayakebe 12y agoI am suggesting ONE->TO->MANY_OR_APPROPRIATE_DEPENDING_ON_RULE Is your current setup MANY->TO->ONE?
- SquareWheel 12y agoMy setup is both. All accounts filter in to my main account, but from that main account I can send as any of those addresses. As a non-Voice user though, perhaps I'm misunderstanding your proposal. Gmail does have advanced filtering though for forwarding to other addresses.
- mraison 12y agoI wasn't aware of the bunch of services that provide temporary email addresses. Something I've been doing with my gmail address is to put johndoe+thenameofthesite@gmail.com instead of just johndoe@gmail.com. It's nice that Gmail gives you such a wide range of addresses that automatically point to your regular mailbox. It's clearly not ideal (doesn't preserve the privacy of my normal email address), but it's super easy to do and in most cases it allows me to filter out unwanted emails, trace which advertiser got my email address from which service, etc. Now of course if services start implementing the removal of the +* part from the email address then this doesn't work anymore. But for now I think they don't really care.
- nchelluri 12y agoI have a johndoe.public@gmail.com email address that forwards everything to johndoe@gmail.com. I do the same trick you do, but I use johndoe.public+sitename@gmail.com instead. I sometimes use mailinator too.
- husanu 12y agoand how easy is for spammers to remove the "+sitename" from email address?
- Steuard 12y agoI'm embarrassed to say that it wasn't until I'd been using this technique for multiple years that this occurred to me. I've kept doing it out of inertia ever since. I'd say "it works if you make sure that no legitimate mail will lack a +", but some sites fail horribly when there's a + in your address. (I once got stuck in a situation where the "new account" form on a site accepted the + version, but their login form (based on email address) didn't.)
- tricolon 12y agoI will forever be subscribed to the Bowery Presents newsletter because Ticketmaster's unsubscribe form doesn't allow +s in email addresses.
- paromi 12y agoThere are tons of similar sites to choose. I use http://tempsky.com http://tempsky.com for some time and had no problems
- lightblade 12y agoI have seen form validators that actually block you from using disposable emails.
- Aldo_MX 12y agoBUT they can't catch EVERY disposable email being the most effective one to register your own .tk domain and proxy it to a disposable mail server ;)
- rubyn00bie 12y agoSite wouldn't load, but here's my favorite platform for disposable emails: mytrashmail.com I've probably been using it for a decade now. Wonderful service.
- billyhoffman 12y agoThere is a depressing theme on this thread that businesses == spammers. I am sure that a long history of poor email use by many companies helped create this impression, but this way too broad of a generalization. Our startup has a "free report" where we analyze a single page and dependent resources for ~420 front-end performance issues. We believe that this has value. For that free report, we ask for a valid email address, so we can send you 1 email, from an actual person, to ask what you thought of the findings and to offer to answer any questions. That's it. You get something, we get something. Now, I understand that 1st time users can't/don't know if our free report value, so they don't want to give us something you consider valuable in return. But using a temporary email to get peek at value from me is a dick move. 1000 people rush to tell me: "But if you service has value then people will come back and [blah blah blah]". Well, you have a gut feel and I have 4 years of data. And we have had 0 temp email providers ever want to talk with us. Clearly we provide value, because we have a number of large customers in the retail and media spaces. What I've learned is the type of person who uses a temp email provider doesn't see the value that our customers do. They don't fit our customer model, so we don't spend time or energy on them, and importantly money/resources on them. Instead we filter the major temp email providers and display a message explaining our email policy, and ask them to use a real email address. People can get around it, but it raises the bar and explains our position, which is really the only thing I can do. Jerk companies have created an environment that is tarnishes everyone, and that is depressing as hell.
- philh 12y agoFrom your perspective, is there a difference between "user gives you a temporary email address" and "user gives you their real email address and ignores the email you send"?
- billyhoffman 12y agoYes, to me they are different. Temp email users could see my email, and ignore it. A real email user could see the email and ignore it. While the outcome is the same, for me it's a matter of intent. A disposable email address feel like "I don't trust you, go away, you are not allowed to talk to me". Great. I understand, and being selective with your trust is good. But I'm not some random person walking up to you on the street and saying "give me your email address". You came to me, and you are asking me to give you something (in this case, an analysis of your website's front-end performance issues). In return, I at least want the opportunity for my email to rot in a place that might actually get your attention :-)
- edoceo 12y agoYet another item to add to my user verification service - which blocks these kinds of things. I like getting my users real email address - and blocking "high risk" accounts
- Red_ 12y agoI really like the design of this site, it is almost exactly like Tempmail[1]. [1] http://tempmail.de http://tempmail.de