Temporary email accounts

Quintus

I don't know if this is the right place for this or not, but here goes! I'm starting to be bombarded by emails which hope to improve various parts of my bodily functioning. This could have come from a variety of sources of course, but its getting a little tiresome.

I was thinking of using temporary email addresses in future when using the net and buying from websites etc. I'd like to have an email address that will forward, but which is essentially disposable to stop my 'home' email being passed on to spammers. Doing a basic search brings up alot of sites offering this, but are they legit?

Does any one use one of these sites? Or can anyone recommend?

Thanks.

[Deleted User]

I'd stick with either hotmail or gmail.

Have a read of this:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1131677&highlight=spam

esuhl

Spam Gourmet is a good one that I use. You can create disposable email addresses on the fly. All emails are forwarded to your normal account until a certain number of emails have been received, at which point no more are passed on to you - Spam Gourmet gobbles them up!

http://www.spamgourmet.com/

Quintus

Thanks very much for that. I'll check it out.

I was wondering about trying mailinator. I don't know if anyone has experience with that or not.

scotsbob

another vote for Spam Gourmet. Also on your account that you say is being spammed you could use Mailwasher. That bounces the spammers mail right back to them

-TangleFoot-

Quintus wrote: »

I was wondering about trying mailinator. I don't know if anyone has experience with that or not.

I used it to bypass this a few days ago, and it worked beautifully. This feature in particular appears to offer the very functionality you're looking for, but it's not foolproof: if someone else happens to type in the same thing you've chosen for your account name at the main page, they'll be able to read any mail that arrives there too. In addition, any emails received are automatically deleted after a few hours, so you can't really use it for anything important.

brightonman123

have used yahoo mail, with an extra long name with numbers and _ type characters..

seems to confuse the spambots!

DatabaseError

firefox browser with the trashmail addon....
each time you sign up to some rubbish, you create (with 1 click) a new email address which will forward up to 10 items for 14 days, then disappear!

obamaviva

which is essentially disposable to stop my 'home' email being passed on to spammers.

DatabaseError

obamaviva wrote: »

which is essentially disposable to stop my 'home' email being passed on to spammers.

not too sure who you're replying to....but the trashmail is completely disposable.
you set up a free account with them..so all your 'disposable' addresses get forwarded to your real account..and the disposable addresses have a life of no more than 2 weeks and 10 messages...whichever comes 1st

esuhl

brightonman123 wrote: »

have used yahoo mail, with an extra long name with numbers and _ type characters..

seems to confuse the spambots!

If you want a long email address, you can get "the longest ones in the world" here:

http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/

It might confuse some spambots if you post it on a web page, but I can imagine that you'd run out of space on a lot of web-based forms!