When you register at a web-site you are often asked to provide your e-mail address to complete the registration process, and soon thereafter your inbox is filled with Spam from that web-site, and from every other organization with which they share their marketing list. Order a product on-line, and you are asked for your e-mail address. Whether you want to be or not, you are then added to that company’s marketing list.
Disposable e-mail addresses let you provide a working e-mail address that lasts for a few minutes to a few days, and then deletes itself. You can use these disposable addresses to register at a web-site, order an item, or receive a message from someone without providing your actual, personal e-mail address.
Some disposable e-mail providers include:
10 Minute Mail - https://10minutemail.com/
10 Minute Mail provides you with a disposable e-mail address that lasts, as the name would imply, ten minutes, and then deletes itself. While on the 10 Minute Mail web-site you can reset the self-destruct countdown back to ten minutes by clicking the “10 More Minutes” button, but once the countdown reaches zero that e-mail address is gone forever. E-mail sent to your 10 Minute Mail address appears as links on the web-site, allowing you to open, read, and reply to the e-mail. A 10 Minute Mail e-mail address looks something like this t585985@mvrht.net.
10 Minute Mail provides you with a disposable e-mail address that lasts, as the name would imply, ten minutes, and then deletes itself. While on the 10 Minute Mail web-site you can reset the self-destruct countdown back to ten minutes by clicking the “10 More Minutes” button, but once the countdown reaches zero that e-mail address is gone forever. E-mail sent to your 10 Minute Mail address appears as links on the web-site, allowing you to open, read, and reply to the e-mail. A 10 Minute Mail e-mail address looks something like this t585985@mvrht.net.
MailDrop - https://maildrop.cc/
MailDrop lets you make up any name you want and prepend it to the @maildrop.cc domain. E-mail sent to that e-mail address is posted to a publicly accessible web-site, where if you know the e-mail address you can access the e-mail. A MailDrop inbox holds a maximum of ten e-mail messages, and the inbox is deleted after 24 hours on no activity. When using MailDrop it is important to understand that anyone who knows the e-mail address can access the inbox for that address. A hard-to-guess user name, such as Gve8TTyz2, can add a little privacy to your MailDrop address – but just a little. If you need a little more privacy with your e-mail address, MailDrop creates an alias for each e-mail address. E-mail sent to the alias address will also show up in your inbox, but people cannot view the alias address inbox without knowing the original address.
MailDrop lets you make up any name you want and prepend it to the @maildrop.cc domain. E-mail sent to that e-mail address is posted to a publicly accessible web-site, where if you know the e-mail address you can access the e-mail. A MailDrop inbox holds a maximum of ten e-mail messages, and the inbox is deleted after 24 hours on no activity. When using MailDrop it is important to understand that anyone who knows the e-mail address can access the inbox for that address. A hard-to-guess user name, such as Gve8TTyz2, can add a little privacy to your MailDrop address – but just a little. If you need a little more privacy with your e-mail address, MailDrop creates an alias for each e-mail address. E-mail sent to the alias address will also show up in your inbox, but people cannot view the alias address inbox without knowing the original address.
GuerrillaMail - https://www.guerrillamail.com/
GuerrillaMail provides you with a disposable e-mail address that allows you to receive messages, as well as compose e-mail to send to others. Composed e-mail may include attachments of up to 150MB. GuerrillaMail doesn't require account registration, anyone who knows the Inbox ID may have access to that inbox, so it's best to use a random address. To add protection, you can use the Scramble Address feature. GuerrillaMail deletes all email that was delivered to an inbox after 1 hour.
GuerrillaMail provides you with a disposable e-mail address that allows you to receive messages, as well as compose e-mail to send to others. Composed e-mail may include attachments of up to 150MB. GuerrillaMail doesn't require account registration, anyone who knows the Inbox ID may have access to that inbox, so it's best to use a random address. To add protection, you can use the Scramble Address feature. GuerrillaMail deletes all email that was delivered to an inbox after 1 hour.
YOPmail - http://www.yopmail.com/en/
YOPmail lets you choose any e-mail address @YOPmail.com. YOPmail is accessible to anyone who knows the inbox name (e-mail address), but YOPmail provides you with an e-mail alias to provide a little extra security for your e-mail. Messages are kept for 8 days and then deleted. You can also manually delete messages when you read them. Sending e-mail from YOPmail to external addresses is prohibited. You can however, send an anonymous email to another YOPmail address.
YOPmail lets you choose any e-mail address @YOPmail.com. YOPmail is accessible to anyone who knows the inbox name (e-mail address), but YOPmail provides you with an e-mail alias to provide a little extra security for your e-mail. Messages are kept for 8 days and then deleted. You can also manually delete messages when you read them. Sending e-mail from YOPmail to external addresses is prohibited. You can however, send an anonymous email to another YOPmail address.
There are several other disposable e-mail providers that can be found with your favorite search engine. Experiment with several of them and find a couple that offer the features you like. Using a disposable e-mail address is a good way to help protect your personal privacy and defend against Spam and phishing.
E-mail Forwarding...
Sometimes you may want to receive multiple e-mails from someone, such as when you subscribe to a blog or newsletter, but you don’t want to provide your personal e-mail address. This is where e-mail forwarding is useful. Two e-mail forwarding services that I like are:
33 Mail - https://33mail.com
With 33 Mail you sign up and pick a username, for example, "joesmith". Now, any email address ending with ...@joesmith.33mail.com will be forwarded to you. The next time you visit a website that asks for your email address, instead of giving them your real email address, just make one up especially for them.
With 33 Mail you sign up and pick a username, for example, "joesmith". Now, any email address ending with ...@joesmith.33mail.com will be forwarded to you. The next time you visit a website that asks for your email address, instead of giving them your real email address, just make one up especially for them.
Not Sharing My Info - http://notsharingmy.info
Provide your e-mail address to Not Sharing My Info and they generate an e-mail alias for you. All e-mail sent to your @notsharinmy.info e-mail address is forwarded to the e-mail address you provided when signing up for your account.
Provide your e-mail address to Not Sharing My Info and they generate an e-mail alias for you. All e-mail sent to your @notsharinmy.info e-mail address is forwarded to the e-mail address you provided when signing up for your account.
With both 33 Mail and Not Sharing My Info, if you start receiving Spam at one of your alias e-mail addresses you can simply delete that alias and receive no further e-mail from it. E-mail forwarding helps protect your privacy, and helps you identify the source of data breaches - if you provide an e-mail address to only one company you will know the source of the compromise if you start receiving Spam through that e-mail address.
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