Disposable Email Addresses from MintEmail
January 1st, 2008 | Published in Email | 8 Comments
MintEmail is a useful service that gives you a four-hour temporary email address, perfect for filling out forms on websites where you aren’t comfortable giving out your real email address. When you visit the MintEmail website, you’ll see a temporary email address has been generated for you. You can choose to either use that address or click the link provided to create a custom address of your own. The address is conveniently added to your clipboard, so you don’t have to hit Ctrl + C to copy it - you can just paste it into whatever form you are filling out at the time. When new emails to that address arrive, they will automatically display on the MintEmail homepage. New email notifications will display on the title bar, so if you navigate away from the page, you will know when to return and check your messages. MintEmail also offers an email forwarding service which allows you to create a mintemail.com email address for a period of time that lasts longer than 4 hours. The address forwards all emails to your real email address for a time frame of your choosing, which can be anywhere from 12 hours to 3 months. You can also check all your MintEmails from the URL http://mintemail.com/username. Although there are many other temporary email services available, the speed with which you can generate a disposable MintEmail email address makes the service extremely handy.
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January 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 am (#)
Happy New Year Sarah,
This is a great resource to know about.
I heard it hear 1st,
Thx,
Catto
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm (#)
happy new year to you too!
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm (#)
Hi Sarah,
In your title for this blog post, did you mean disposable, or disposal?
MintEmail sounds nice. I may take a look. Fortunately, there are many temporary email services available. No matter what your tastes, at least one of the services will fit what you need.
I have my own list of preferred providers here:
http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/ClifsEmailRant
I have also found several lists of sources for these services. Here is a good one.
http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/10/04/disposable-e-mail-address-services/
Happy New Year Sarah!
Clif
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January 2nd, 2008 at 10:04 pm (#)
Oh, wow! I was tired when I blogged that. I’ve corrected it now. How embarrassing! Thanks so much for letting me know!
January 8th, 2008 at 9:21 am (#)
Isn’t a free, temporary email service like this just a haven for spammers though?
January 10th, 2008 at 8:52 pm (#)
do u think this is better than yahoo… yahoo also provides dispoable add.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm (#)
Yahoo’s is good too…this is just faster.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:15 pm (#)
Al,
I am not quite sure what you mean by “haven for spammers”. But, mintemail.com does receive about 10,000 spam messages a day. But, the user never sees anything because a new email address is assigned every time.