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My bet is guerilla mail was pursued for fraud/terrorism/drug charges, it's not a stretch to guess how an anonymous email service is used by some users.

Looking at guerilla mail, there is no way to contact them and no information about who runs the service. It's a shady company with no legal information as far as anyone can tell. (nothing in the about us or the terms or service pages).

If the police wanted to investigate some users/mails, they would have to get a warrant to OVH to figure out who to contact in the first place (who runs that thing?). It's a fair guess that OVH receiving anything of that sort would shutdown the account immediately.

It's also possible that the police would purposefully shutdown the service and/or seize the servers but rather unlikely. Either way, all the roads lead to the site being dead.

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Nowhere on the website it says that it's an anonymous email service provider - it was an anti-spam email solution first and foremost. In fact, the email sending feature prominently warned the user that their IP address would be included in the headers of the email sent. (The sending feature was not for anonymous email, but for the rare chance that a user needed to send an email from there or reply. Guerrilla Mail is mostly used for receiving)

Well, it allows to send and receive emails, it's going to be abused like an email service, how is up to creativity =)

It would certainly be nice to have more information on what exactly happened.

of course - create any website open to the public where they can message each other, and there will always be some abuse. It's unavoidable.

But what can you do? You can't police the messages for every potential form of abuse. (I've only ran an automated spam filter to make sure that the service is never used for blatant spam. I've also blanket-blocked some domains whenever I noticed a pattern in any abuse reports, and finally recipients were able to easily do a permanent block themselves). In any case, running a messaging service even more difficult if you're a small guy and not Facebook or Google.

I've added more information about the details of the suspension in another post on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24998922

I thought you allowed to send messages to guerilla addresses only, but you allow to send messages to the rest of the world? If you intend it only for replies, maybe check that inbox has a message that passed DKIM verification, aged no more than 4 days.

You're being naive thinking you can run an open spam service with no consequences. Maybe you don't care about abuse but the hosting does and will act on the recurring complaints.

Seriously, cut the ability to reply to emails and that should be fine.

There's no use case to send replies for an anti-spam. Never seen a registration process that required to reply to complete the registration.

Tip: The google postmaster tool can show you the reputation of your domain and how much of your outbound emails are going to spam. That shall give you an idea how well it's abused. https://www.gmail.com/postmaster/

It wasn't shutdown for spam, and the service is not a spam service but an ant-spam service.

The service has been sending out emails since about 2013. It only lets out a limited number of emails, and there's an anti abuse policy in place. The IP address always has a good reputation with Google and Microsoft, I am well aware of all the feedback loops.

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