Best Temporary Email Services

Posted by Maris Dagis on July 28th, 2009 4:01 PM

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Best email spam filters deals with unwanted messages pretty great, but time to time some of the spam emails find the way to your inbox – nothing is perfect! But, maybe, there is a way to stop giving your email to unknown sources and avoid spam.

Many people use temporary email services to protect their real email addresses. When you need to fill out some registration forms or give away your email to shady/unknown sources you can simply create temporary email address and use it instead.

Below are some of the most popular temporary email services that will help you create temporary email address within a few moments:

1) Mailinator

One of the most popular and advanced temporary email services. They have several alternate domains you can use for your email. Check out also Mailinator widget for websites.

2) Melt Mail

Very simple service for setting up temporary email address that will forward incoming mail to your real address. Simplicity is the greatest quality of this service so if you want to go the easiest way use Melt Mail.

3) 10 Minute Mail

Using this service you are able to create email address that will work for 10 minutes. If you want to do something quick use 10 Minute Mail.

4) Guerrilla Mail

Don’t understand English? Use Guerrilla mail in German, Spanish, Polish and Dutch languages. Emails of this service are active for 15 minutes and after that they will expire.

5) TempEMail

Your email address created using this temporary email service will expire in 14 days, so it is very useful if you need to wait some time for some emails and you don’t know when exactly you will receive them.

6) MailExpire

Great service that offers you to create email that will be active from 12 hours up till 3 months depending on your needs. Only problem is that it works for me a bit slow.

7) Filz Mail

Very easy to use and simple solution. You even have a possibility to check for your mail using RSS feeds, which gives you great possibility to receive messages via your favorite RSS readers you use on daily basis.

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Heather

I use www.mailguard.me...
Here is the information on its features:

MailGuard goes a step further in the technical implementation. It operates with disposable domains! New disposable email addresses are created in the form of xyz@abc.emailtmp.com where the "abc" part is a temporary, disposable domain name. When the temporary email address reaches expiration, the *domain name* is removed from the DNS servers. This means that the IP address of the mail server is no longer known to potential email senders, and thus they cannot even make a network connection to send you mail. Who needs mail filtering?! Don't let them even reach your machine!

It is also possible to set up a number of addresses in advance and specify that they lie dormant until the first email arrives. Upon first email arrival and address activation, then the expiration timer can begin. With this feature it is possible for a user to create a number of nice looking addresses in advance that may be used in printed or other permanent form. These addresses can be handed out when needed without having to manage the expiration properties. The expiration properties will not become active until the first message arrives.

MailGuard also provides SafeReply™. Once somebody sends you email via a MailGuard address, you may have the need to reply to their message. SafeReply™ allows you to simply reply directly to the message in your normal email program, no matter which email program it is. Your reply will be routed back through the MailGuard mail servers and your identifying information (i.e. your email address) will be stripped from the mail headers. So your reply will appear to arrive from an address like "xyz@abc.emailtmp.com" rather than from you, even though you simply replied from your regular email program. How awesome is that!!?

MailGuard is currently developing browser plugins that permit you to generate these disposable email addresses quickly and on the spot while you are filling our a form online at any site. This takes everything to another level. The moment you need a temporary or disposable email address, you will simply click and get a new one generated, without ever leaving the page you are currently looking at. This is the true utility of MailGuard.