Disposable e-mail address services
Submitted on October 4th, 2005 by admin
Filed under Email and Resources and Security
One of the best tricks to stop spam e-mail from reaching your inbox is by creating a disposable e-mail address. I’ve used a Hotmail account for spam for a long time, but recently, many services have popped up which serve exclusively to route spam to. Some of these services provide RSS feeds of e-mail, others let you forward e-mail to your real account. Some require registration, some don’t. See what works best for you, though my favorite is still Mailinator (NOTE: Brian, who writes for TipMonkies sometimes, works on Mailinator and created the great Spam Map for the service) because of its simplicity. All the following are free.
- AnonInbox- no registration, simple, no frills.
- DodgeIt- no registration required, provides RSS feeds, receive-only.
- E4ward- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, allows multiple aliases of an account.
- GreenSloth- no registration required, receive-only, e-mail expires automatically after a week.
- KasMail- requires registration, allows up to 25 aliases, can set aliases to expire after a certain amount of time.
- Jetable- provides mail forwarding, account autoexpires after certain amount of time.
- Mailinator- no registration required, provides handy spam map, receive-only, e-mail expires automatically after a few hours.
- MailNull- requires registration, provides mail forwarding.
- PookMail- no registration required, very simple to use.
- SneakeMail- requires registration, provides mail forwarding.
- SpamDay- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, account is automatically destroyed after 24 hours of opening.
- SpamGourmet- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, can create custom aliases which automatically expire after a certain number of e-mails received.
- Spam.la- no registration required, no frills. You can see all spam being sent to all Spam.la accounts, or just your own.
- SpamMotel- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, mail can be accessed through desktop e-mail clients, can reply to e-mail from your real e-mail address using SpamMotel e-mail.
- TempInbox- no registration required, provides RSS and Atom feeds, receive only, supports many different languages.
- Will Hack for Food- requires registration, account expires after user indicated period of time, best name ever.
I purposedly left out any non-free options, or services which I felt had weak privacy policies.
UPDATE: added Spam.la (thanks Cristhian)
UPDATE 2: added Greensloth, SpamDay, and Will Hack for Food (thanks Jason, David, and Random)
UPDATE 3: I’ve been informed the downloadable component for SpamMotel is NOT required so I have added it to the list (thanks Jim)
UPDATE 4: added AnonInbox (thanks Jes)
UPDATE 5: added MailNull and TempInbox (thanks Austin and David)
October 5th, 2005 at 3:30 am
I’ve used Sneakemail since 2000 and it works fine. Still concidering to pay for the service
October 5th, 2005 at 4:54 am
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October 5th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
bloglines.com also offers the same service as “email subscriptions” a throw away email addres that can also be used to reply to messages. I have used this to subscribe to various product site lists to keep up with what they’re doing, but not get spammed. If I do get spam at that address, i just kill it, and resubcribe with a new throw away one. thanks bloglines!
October 5th, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Interesting…I’ve used BlogLines extensively, and had no clue they offered this feature. Very cool indeed.
October 5th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
I’ve been using MyTrashMail.com for a while, its just works fine.
October 6th, 2005 at 7:29 am
You missed http://willhackforfood.biz/
October 6th, 2005 at 7:55 am
Another one: http://spamday.com
October 6th, 2005 at 8:12 am
I’ve been using SpamGourmet for years now, and it works great. Email address generation is automatic, and collapsable… better yet - they offer “advanced” services for those interested in getting more out of their service. I’ve tried some of the others and I’ll stick with Spamgourmet!
October 6th, 2005 at 8:31 am
I have to agree with Anonymous. Spamgourmet rocks. I’ve been using it for about 4 years now.
October 6th, 2005 at 8:48 am
I agree with “Random”. Willhackforfood.biz, created by the guys at DDP, is great. If I use any, I use that one. Never use ones such as mailinator, for registering for places with your real password, because someone can pretend to be you and use a “Forgot my Password” link to get your real password emailed to an email address they can access (’cos no registration is required).
Its a big security risk, and an easy way to gleam loads of passwords (just look on big forums for @mailinator.com address or whatever).
October 6th, 2005 at 9:37 am
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October 6th, 2005 at 9:37 am
another great site is www.GreenSloth.com
it requires no registration and as simple as dodgeit.
October 6th, 2005 at 10:44 am
Check out gishpuppy.com! You can create an e-mail address for every site individually. They also have browser integration for Firefox and IE. Just right click the e-mail field and “Gish It!” If you start getting spam, you know where it is coming from so you can expire that address. Or set them for auto-expiration. I couldn’t live without this one!
October 6th, 2005 at 11:00 am
I have to agree that spamgourmet has all the options I could want. The advanced features allow you to send and recieve from your “spamgourmet” account. They also have extra domains that you can use. I didn’t like having an address that had the word “spam” in it, so I chose to use their xoxy.net domain. It works exactly the same but looks more like a real world address.
I like that addresses don’t auto expire (i.e. just go away). If the number of addresses has been exceeded, then you can always just add a few more to make sure that you are not missing anything. Also, you can add an “exclusive sender” which can be a single account or an entire domain that will let email through regardless if the number of total emails allowed has been exceeded. It’s very handy!
October 6th, 2005 at 11:05 am
I like mailinator.com but it doesn’t seem to be working for at least a couple of days now. The website is still there, but I can’t retrieve any emails sent there. Dodgeit.com seems to be the best of the others that don’t require registration, like mailinator.
October 6th, 2005 at 11:27 am
http://www.haltospam.com/index.php?lang=en
October 6th, 2005 at 11:32 am
Thanks for all the comments, folks. Added a few of the suggestions here to the list including GreenSloth, SpamDay, and Will Hack for Food.
October 6th, 2005 at 11:52 am
After a brief redesign, myTrashMail is a convenient, if not very ad-ridden, service. However, it does allow interesting services like an optional sign-up and outgoing E-mail spoofing.
October 6th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
Don’t forget http://www.spamspot.net
October 6th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
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October 6th, 2005 at 3:25 pm
Spamgourmet requires a registration, but it’s VERY simple and they don’t ask for any personal info. Just enough to get you up and running. It allows you to keep track of the hundreds of names that you will eventually amass.
October 6th, 2005 at 3:34 pm
What about http://www.spamex.com ? I’ve been using them for years and I get no spam. I love them!
October 6th, 2005 at 4:19 pm
Spamex wasn’t included because it’s not free.
October 6th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
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October 7th, 2005 at 2:14 am
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October 7th, 2005 at 9:16 am
Very nice list - thanks!
October 7th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
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October 7th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
MailNull.com
October 7th, 2005 at 12:49 pm
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October 7th, 2005 at 3:00 pm
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October 7th, 2005 at 3:08 pm
Tempinbox.com is one of the more popular ones…
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese available.
RSS Feeds can be set up for each address.
October 7th, 2005 at 3:19 pm
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October 10th, 2005 at 6:17 pm
Don’t forget www.Spambob.com
Use it all the time.
No registration and instant access
October 10th, 2005 at 11:52 pm
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October 13th, 2005 at 8:52 am
I find mailinator does not always work with me. On the other hand, dodgeit is amazingly simple and super reliable.
Thank you so much for this list, it has some gems that I will certainly recommend to friends.
October 13th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
shortMail.net is also one that combines alot of the more popular services.
October 15th, 2005 at 12:21 am
I used to use dodgeit but it is soo slow - now I use www.tempemail.net because it is heaps faster
October 15th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
I also use www.shortMail.net and you definitely need to add it on the list. It is fast and very easy to use.
October 18th, 2005 at 10:54 am
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October 19th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
For the past few years I have had disposable addresses on www.despammed.com Now I can’t access the despammed.com website and no mail is being forwarded. Does anyone know what’s happened to the service?
October 31st, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Much cooler than anaonymous email addresses are anonymous phone numbers. Here in the UK Yac offers a great service. check it out at yac.com
November 5th, 2005 at 1:23 am
Check out the new Kid on the block , simple and free,RSS, Google rating 6
Visit www.Wuzupmail.net and start using it today, no signups needed
November 9th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
My fav is GreenSloth.com. Looks weirdly cool and works great. I used to use mailanator though..
November 15th, 2005 at 1:14 am
If you like customization try: www.loftmail.com
November 17th, 2005 at 11:55 am
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November 27th, 2005 at 5:36 pm
Yea, GreenSloth is too cool. click there - www.GreenSloth.com and stare at that animal for 2 minutes, it will cast a spell on you! Other disposable email I use is mailanator.com which is also good
Jass
How I found out about GreenSloth?
I typed “Flirting Secret” on google and the first page had featured this cool site!
November 27th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
Was it google? Nope SORRY, i typed “Flirting Secret” on MSN and thats how I found out about GreenSloth
December 11th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
I use www.MailEater.com for disposable email
a lot these days. Its clean and fast.
December 11th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
Definately www.MailEater.com for free disposable email.
December 13th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
I have been using www.emailias.com for 10 months now. Beats the pants off spamgourmet anyday. $20/year. Support has proved very responsive. I proposed 2 improvements - they were implemented forthwith.
February 2nd, 2006 at 10:07 am
[…] Here’s another great service I need to add to the ever-growing list of disposable e-mail address services, an it’s called Mail Filter. The service comes with all the features we’ve come to expect from such services including the ability to create fake e-mail addresses, access the account from anywhere, and RSS feeds for your inbox, but also offers some great features not available in all services including the ability to filter your real inbox through its servers, customizing the sensitivity levels of your filters, adding custom mail filters, and sending auto-replies while you’re on vacation. The service is free for up to 20MB of messages, with more filtering capacity coming at a cost (starting at around $5 USD). […]
February 16th, 2006 at 3:47 am
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March 18th, 2006 at 9:43 am
Some more disposable email addresses:
http://www.mytrashmail.com
http://www.trashmail.net
http://www.spamhole.com
March 28th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Try http://ipoo.org/mail/ instead. It’s faster and simpler than the other services, which is good for me.
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May 19th, 2006 at 12:39 am
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May 27th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Great job guys…
June 13th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
I found an interresting new temporary email service : http://www.dontreg.com . it’s simple and fast. ( not that safe though - it’s good for junk mail
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June 14th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
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August 3rd, 2006 at 12:31 pm
http://temporaryinbox.com/
September 1st, 2006 at 2:06 am
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September 15th, 2006 at 4:51 am
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May 11th, 2007 at 3:02 am
http://Spamavert.com is pretty new, but it still might be worth a look. It even features a nice Firefox-extension that allows you to generate random addresses. You can also subscribe to e-mail addresses using RSS feeds.
(Advertainment; I’m one of the site’s authors)
May 13th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
What happened to Greensloth?
June 21st, 2007 at 8:53 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 12:25 am
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July 17th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
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July 18th, 2007 at 5:57 am
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August 11th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
One more site it´s new…
www.disposable-email.com
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