Disposable emails are fake email addresses you can give to
people you don’t trust, to services you suspect of sharing your address,
and on any situation where you don’t want to use your real address.
Depending on the service you use, you can either read emails received, or receive them to your real inbox.
There are dozen of such services,
and most are really easy to use. It’s just a matter of finding the one
which offers the right features for you, and yes, there are all kinds of
different features and perks to be had. So if you need a confidential
disposable email address that you don’t want tracked, here are some
excellent options you can try.
\GuerrillaMail
GuerrillaMail provides you more than
just a disposable email address. The email address you get from
GuerrillaMail never expires, so it’s actually not disposable – it’s
even better. To use GuerrillaMail, all you have to do is choose your
inbox ID, which would be your email address, and you’re ready to go. You
can have any username you want, and choose between seven different
domains. When you receive an email to your new address, it will
automatically appear on your email page. You can reply from within
GuerrillaMail, and even attach files. GuerrillaMail acts as a spam
filter too, so spam shouldn’t even reach your inbox, and all email is
deleted within 1 hour.
Since your address lasts forever
(unless you tell it to forget you), you can use it again and again. All
you have to do is enter the same email to view your inbox, so anyone who
has it can view it. GuerrillaMail solves this problem by using aliases
when sending out emails, so your recipients can’t access your
GuerrillaMail. The downside is that sometimes emails I sent out from
GuerrillaMail simply never arrived.
FakeInbox
FakeInbox is slightly better looking
than is common for these services, and offers fake email addresses that
self-destruct after 60 minutes. All the provided addresses are in the
same domain – fakeinbox.com – and you can either choose your own
username or let the service generate a random one for you. You can now
give this address to anyone, and receive incoming emails on FakeInbox’s
interface. You can also reply from here, and those are received
instantly. A countdown at the bottom of the page shows you how much time
you have left with this address. You can delete it before
your time is up. If you want an extra 60 minutes you can get that as well.
MailCatch
MailCatch is very similar to GuerrillaMail, but with a cherry on top. To start, MailCatch makes it very clear that you can give out a
mailcatch.com email address before you even access the website. Just
think up some random username, and then point your browser atusername.mailcatch.com
to check your email. As with GuerrillaMail, all a person needs in order
to access this mailbox is an username. MailCatch is read
only, and you can’t reply to emails. All emails on MailCatch are deleted after a short time.
AirMail
AirMail is a disposable email
address service with some nice perks. Unlike other services, you can
only generate random emails, with no control over what they’ll be. You
can, however, generate one after the other until you find something you
like. There seem to be at least 5 different domains in use. Once you
find an address you like, you can give it to whoever you want, and
receive the emails to AirMail’s interface. According to the AirMail
website, you can view HTML emails, although I couldn’t see an image I
sent myself. AirMail also claims to strip hidden codes from emails, thus
preventing third parties from learning information about your browser
and IP.
The nice thing about AirMail is that
it feels almost like regular email. You get a sound notification upon
arrival of a new email, and you can check your emails from any browser
on any computer by copying your inbox’s unique URL. The address will
last as long as you keep checking it. If you stop, everything will self
destruct after 24 hours.
EasyTrashMail
EasyTrashMail takes a slightly
different approach to disposable emails, and for this one to work, you
need to provide your real email address. On the up side, you don’t have
to use a clunky Web interface – all emails sent to your disposable
address are automatically forwarded to your regular inbox. So how does
it work? You provide the service with your real email address, and
choose how much time you want your disposable address to exist. There
are many options to choose from, ranging from 15 minutes to 1 month.
Once you click on “Create” you receive a random email address at
easytrashmail.com, and or as long as it’s up, you’ll receive anything
sent to it directly to your inbox, without having to disclose your real
address.
Mailnesia
Aside from its clever
name, Mailnesia comes with several other cool features. Mailnesia is
similar to GuerrillaMail and MailCatch in that it never really expires,
only deletes email, and you can access the inbox simply by having the
username. Like GuerrillaMail, you can set an alias for your inbox, so
you don’t have to go around giving access to everyone who sees your
address. There are several things that set Mailnesia apart: it comes in
nine different languages, full HTML support, and the best part: auto
clicking on confirmation/activation emails, which are what you’d use
this address for most commonly. This means that if you use this address
to sign up to a service or a website, Mailnesia will automatically click
the confirmation link for you, without you doing anything.
mailinator and 10minutemail are some other disposable email service providers.
Important note: never
use these services for sensitive information or for emails containing
usernames and passwords you want to protect. While they are reasonably
private, they are still not secure as your regular email account.
Instead of using disposable mail services you can use mozilla addons like Bloody Vikings addon.
Bloody Vikings
You can get BloodyVikings addon from the Mozilla Firefox addons page. After you have installed this add-on and restarted your Firefox browser, you are ready to create and use disposable email addresses. Now whenever you happen to visit a webpage where you have to enter email address, you can just right-click on the email address text field and select BloodyVikings from the right-click menu. You can select one service from the many disposable email address services.
When you select one of the disposable email address services, it
automatically generates a fake disposable email address and opens the
respective service's webpage in a new tab where you can check the email
messages delivered to it. BloodyViking recommends using the 10
MinuteMail service which expires the generated email address within 10
minutes of generation (just like in the movie Mission Impossible). If
you want disposable email address for a longer duration, then you can
use other services like Anonbox or mailinator.
You can open the BloodyVikings options from the Addons page by typing about:addons in the location bar. In the options for BloodyVikings, you can set the default disposable email service. By default, the default email service is set to 10 Minutes Mail. You can choose to automatically copy an email address to clipboard which makes it easy to use it on sites that require you to enter email address at multiple places. You can also set option to pin the respective mailbox as an app in Firefox, which makes it easy to check the email messages by just clicking on the app icon.
BloodyVikings is an excellent add-on for Firefox that simplifies the
generation and use of a disposable email address. It supports a large
number of disposable email address services including 10 Minute Mail,
Mailinator, TrashMail, Anonbox, Yopmail, FakeMailGenerator, Mailcatch,
Squizzy, SpamAvert, Mailforspam, Koszmail and more.
You can install this add-on from https://addons.mozilla.org/.
You can get BloodyVikings addon from the Mozilla Firefox addons page. After you have installed this add-on and restarted your Firefox browser, you are ready to create and use disposable email addresses. Now whenever you happen to visit a webpage where you have to enter email address, you can just right-click on the email address text field and select BloodyVikings from the right-click menu. You can select one service from the many disposable email address services.
You can open the BloodyVikings options from the Addons page by typing about:addons in the location bar. In the options for BloodyVikings, you can set the default disposable email service. By default, the default email service is set to 10 Minutes Mail. You can choose to automatically copy an email address to clipboard which makes it easy to use it on sites that require you to enter email address at multiple places. You can also set option to pin the respective mailbox as an app in Firefox, which makes it easy to check the email messages by just clicking on the app icon.
You can install this add-on from https://addons.mozilla.org/.
Need a disposable email i.d try these
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