Show HN : Airmail, instant disposable email made with node.js

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I made this while learning nodejs, It's very handy when registering for new services and waiting for that confirmation / authenticate your email request.

uses node.js redis and haraka for the backend and socket.io for real time browser notifications

I will definitely use this for throw away services that ask for email and you know you are never going to touch it again.

Pretty impressive implementation also.

I'm sure you have spotted, but there is a spelling mistake "recived" => "received".

What are you running in the backend for mail pickup? SendGrid, MailGun?

Thanks, changed the welcome text to be shorter and dropped the spelling mistake :-)

Uses Haraka for the backend (based on node.js)

Easily my favorite interface for throw away emails. Ironically, it allows a lot of tracking through (https://grepular.com/email_privacy_tester)

That's a good point ... I will see what I can do about that.

maybe the best approach would be to proxy everything through my server, so the sender can only see airmail's ip in his logs ?

Love the idea, but didn't work for me... nothing sent to blue.mouth@7tags.com arrived.

which browser are you using ? maybe a problem with socket.io ?

Using Firefox with a whack of addons. When I delete the original admin message and then choose "Redisplay All" it comes back, perhaps that's a clue that socket.io is working.

I will try to investigate.

The interface looks cool, but could the welcome screen be skippable?

Yes I think that's a good idea, was annoyed by it myself.

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