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How to get a temporary EMail ID

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I built 10MinuteMail as an exercise to learn the JBoss Seam framework. I'm very glad people like it and find it useful.

There are a number of great temporarily mail services out there, each with different features, strengths, and weaknesses, so definitely use which ever one fits your needs best.

10MinuteMail is supposed to be easy to use: zero clicks to get your e-mail address and to see incoming e-mail. Everything is on the front page and refreshed via ajax. You don't have to sign up, or provide any information at all.

It's secure: there's no way for other people to read your e-mail by guessing your username/address.

It's available in 36 languages (so far!). Over 50% of the traffic comes from non-US sources.

Problem with lot of these disposable emails is the domain names used by them get blacklisted by services very fast.

I'd suggest just get a domain name and set up a catch-all account that forwards all your mail to a gmail account.

You will be impressed by the amount of spam with a catch-all account.

I find looking at my gmail spam label to be more depressing than impressive, so I try to avoid looking at it -- which is why I use gmail for my catchall accounts.

I suggested you use gmail for a very good reason there, very good at filtering out spam.

I've found very few places that are good about blocking all of the disposable e-mail domains - I can't recall ever finding a site that blocked all of them.

I'm particularly impressed by the zero click ,ajax page feature. @dryicerx -It is not possible for everyone to get a domain and set up catch-all account.

Thanks! I wanted it to be super easy.

I just append something to my Gmail address with a plus character. Like: myaddress@gmail.com might become myaddress+hackernews@gmail.com. I can then set up filters to sort or delete specific sources of mail.

According to Wikipedia, this is called "sub-addressing".

I'd still use Mailinator over this, but I do dig how the address expires. Interesting twist.

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