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A few Windows Secrets Newsletters ago one of the regular columnists (sorry I have forgotten who you were) gave a link to a disposable email address facility. It was a model of simplicity to use.

Unfortunately, the site seems no longer to be active.

I have searched for alternative facilities but they all are far too complicated for their own good, and most of their descriptions are in the same vein.

Does anyone know of another simple, and, ideally, free one?

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Yes, that’s one of many which I read. They are all too complicated.

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Many email companies have options to create disposable accounts, have you checked out the options for your email supplier?

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Yes satrow, I have created a few disposable ones in Yahoo mail, but the site to which I referred was so much simpler.

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I have used E4ward for years and find it really easy to use.

cheers, Paul

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I have used E4ward for years and find it really easy to use.
cheers, Paul

Me too – a couple of minor annoyances, but works well and even worth paying $10 annually for!

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Thank you Paul. That’s still too complicated for me.

Your good health, Syncopator.

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one you can you use which is very simple and easy is http://www.mailinator.com
free, simple any name you can think off can be used, mail goes to your inbox.
I use it for everything.

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There WAS a service that uniquely appended the name of the domain where you were registering so that, when spam showed up, you knew exactly who had “dobbed” you, even though their privacy policy was full of shining white promises that they would keep your data private and secure until one milli-second before the end of time.

I don’t use this, but thought it sounded like a good idea. Others on WSL may know more.

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You can choose the email address ‘name’ field depending on which company/person you are dealing with.
Such as HarveyNichols@mysubdomainname.mailtransferror.com

BATcher

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Having read the details of many disposable email services, I see nothing as simple as the extinct one whose name escapes me.

It might be simple, but Mailinator’s own convoluted description puts me off. No thank you.

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This went paid
https://sneakemail.com/
it was very easy to use but I wasn’t willing to pay $24/year

A simple one to use, where you select to keep that disposable email address active for one hour, one day, one week or one month
http://www.jetable.org/en/index

My replacement for sneakemail is spamgourmet though it can be a challenge to figure out how to use it.
1. your pick a username at the spamgourmet site
2. You create an email address at any website you are on like this
soneword.x.username@spamgourmet.com

the someword I select is a website that wants me to register and I’d prefer not to with a permanent address
x is a number between 1 and 20 which allows this website to send you that many emails; if you pick 5 and decide you don’t mind getting more, I think there is a way to reset the number from 5 to 20.

I rarely need to log into the spamgourmet site because all the emails are forwarded.

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I think the disposable email service which disappeared was spambox.us.

It was mentioned (as an aside, in parentheses) in the Windows Secrets column How to protect yourself from spammers at the end of last year.

A similar service may be AirMail.

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I think the disposable email service which disappeared was spambox.us.

Yes, that was it.

A similar service may be AirMail.

That looks promising. I will try it.

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The one I used to use before it shut down in November 2010 was Emailias.

BATcher

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Depending on why you wish to use a disposable address, you can easily add an alias to an Outlook.com address. See Use aliases to add email addresses to your account for details. From the webpage:

“If you have a @hotmail.com, @live.com, or @MSN.com email address and would like to add an @outlook.com address to your Outlook.com account, the best way is to add an alias.”

Joe

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Thank you Joe. I don’t use any of those services. I did use Outlook Express on my XP machines.
Since I am satisfied with Yahoo, and AirMail looks interesting, I hope that I don’t need to look further.

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when spam showed up, you knew exactly who had “dobbed” you

That worked for tiny sites, but not for bigger. Bigger used agencies, contractors and freelancers to handle their email work, so it was most likely one of the latter which ‘dobbed’ you, not the company you signed up to.

I did use Outlook Express on my XP machines.

Thanks to Microsoft’s continuing awful product naming, you may be misled. Outlook Express has absolutely nothing to do with Outlook.com, other than being a MS product/service.

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mailintor.com lets you receive at anything you just made up
no sending though

A few Windows Secrets Newsletters ago one of the regular columnists (sorry I have forgotten who you were) gave a link to a disposable email address facility. It was a model of simplicity to use.

Unfortunately, the site seems no longer to be active.

I have searched for alternative facilities but they all are far too complicated for their own good, and most of their descriptions are in the same vein.

Does anyone know of another simple, and, ideally, free one?

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From Abine (the makers of Do Not Track Me, now known as Blur) among several offerings, their email masking service is free and simple (same for the tracking blocker functionality).

https://abine.com/index.html

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Thank you Timeless Tech.

Abine doesn’t do themselves any favours. They are much better at displaying pretty graphics than they are at clear explanations. I don’t understand how their masking works.

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The plugin recognizes when the cursor reaches a dialog box for entering an email address and pops up a prompt, asking whether to use your actual email address or insert one of theirs (thereby masking yours). If you choose theirs, Blur creates one, entering it into the dialog and adds it to your account’s masked addresses. Each masked address can be left enabled or turned off at your choosing. While enabled, emails to that address are auto-forwarded to your normal address, but include a header to notify you it came via your masked address.

Thank you Timeless Tech.

Abine doesn’t do themselves any favours. They are much better at displaying pretty graphics than they are at clear explanations. I don’t understand how their masking works.

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The plugin recognizes when the cursor reaches a dialog box for entering an email address and pops up a prompt, asking whether to use your actual email address or insert one of theirs (thereby masking yours). If you choose theirs, Blur creates one, entering it into the dialog and adds it to your account’s masked addresses. Each masked address can be left enabled or turned off at your choosing. While enabled, emails to that address are auto-forwarded to your normal address, but include a header to notify you it came via your masked address.

Ah, that explains it well. Thank you.

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

I believe this is one I have used, web site still up. I should really be using this more, spammers will eventually figure out my little tricks…

That looks like another good one, thank you.

I have now put shortcuts to getairmail and 10minutemail on my desktop, next to my normal email shortcuts.

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Their email masking works the same way as everyone else’s, but they seem to use a browser plug-in / app to use it.

cheers, Paul

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http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

I believe this is one I have used, web site still up. I should really be using this more, spammers will eventually figure out my little tricks…

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I have been using Spamex.com for many years to hide my real address. $10/year for 500 addresses. It requires copy-and-paste to enter an address on a web page.

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