Spam is rising as fast as it has ever, and most inboxes are flooded with thousands of spam mails every day. Typically, spammers get your email addresses in two ways: spam bots which crawl the web to find email addresses, and scrupulous websites which sell email IDs of users which sign up with the website in question. To prevent the second problem, the solution would be a temporary or disposable email account. Temporary email accounts are destroyed after a specific time period, typically after a day.
Benefits of temporary email inboxes
- Protects your mail account from spam by automatically expiring after a certain time period
- Requires no signup and/or registration.
Best disposable email account services
Here is a short list of free, disposable (or temporary) mailbox services worth looking at:
GuerillaMail is one of the better-designed websites offering disposable email accounts, and you can get a random or chosen email ID.
Mailinator is one of the more reputed players in temporary email boxes business. To get a temporary mail box, simply send an email to it – no signup required.
SpamGourmet gives you a temporary and permanent addresses. You can then give out the temporary addresses, from which the first 3 mails are forwarded to your permanent address. Mails sent thereafter to the temporary address is discarded. You should never give out your permanent address.
Spambox lets you select the time until the email account self-destructs.
EmailZorz lets you make an address like someone@emailzorz.com. There are also a few variations to the domain – you can use emailrama.com, emailzorz.com, e-mailzorz.com and mailzorz.com
Skeefmail lets you pick a temporary address. You can also choose a random address instead of picking one yourselves.
If you have other favorite disposable mail services, do not forget to add them in comments below!
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Hey Sumesh, nice post I have been using spambox for quite some time and it is cool.
Tried 3 or 4, Soodonims.com is my favorite. Free, easy to use, unlimited, tons of control, pretty to look at…
Wish all of life was like that!
yopmail is the best in my opinion . it is free, reliable and multilingual service.
I have been using mailnator and other leading services for a while. They have downtimes, and unlike yopmail delete the mails in few hours. But yopmail keeps the messages for 5 days.
thank