Mailinator: Temporary email

I just ran into this very useful (and free) service online: http://www.mailinator.com/ offers you a way to deal with annoying forums and software downloads that require you to provide an email address, then email you your log-in information. Most people have a hotmail account for this purpose, but Mailinator is cleaner, and smarter.

Just sign up for the forum (or whatever) with any mailinator.com email address (ex. joebob@mailinator.com), then go to http://www.mailinator.com/ , and sign in with the name you chose (ex. joebob). Mailinator will receive the email for you and hold on to it for a few hours so that you can get the log in info and get your download, or scan the forum for the support info you need. It’s completely unsecure, so be careful what you use it for, but it certainly can come in handy.

Grant Skinner

The "g" in gskinner. Also the "skinner".

@gskinner

4 Comments

  1. Have you looked into Spam Gourmet: a little bit more secure

    http://www.spamgourmet.com/.

  2. what’s up with that -ator suffix, is that a new fashion now? 🙂 not really ontopic, but if you are using office, a very nice addon is cloudmark. it does it’s job VERY well.

    http://www.cloudmark.com

  3. Temporary E-mail?

    Ever need a temporary mailbox? You know: the one you put up with Hotmail, or Yahoo in order to have? The one that fills with junk you have to wade through every time you want to join a forum or…

  4. Temporary email is done best with http://www.myTrashmail.com

    Its my choice for reducing my spam.

    You try it once and see how easy it can be do reduce your spam

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