5 BEST Disposable email services

KarthiKeyan Shanmugam
4 min readMar 14, 2018

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As you’re already aware,every time you come across something useful on internet and you plan to grab it, they want your email address in return. And once you give them your email address you are done. They will spam your mail box and you will regret for what you have done. Spam messages account for 59.56 percent of e-mail traffic worldwide. The fact is that 16% persons concerning the world are forced to alter their email and about 60% time get lost in examining or eliminating these emails while checking your inbox.So the solution for this is use a disposable email services just like the below ones and ignore it.

Disposable email addresses helps to protect you from spam mails and could be useful when subscribing to forums or newsletters.Now lets look at 5 BEST Disposable email services that helps you to fight spam.

#1.10 Minute Mail

With 10 Minute Mail service, you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes.

#2.AnonBox.net

Creates random email and mailbox addresses with no direct connection. Unfetched Mailboxes are valid until midnight on the following day, fetched Mailboxes will be deleted 5 minutes after delivery. The connection is established over HTTPS.

Anonbox creates virtual Mailboxes consisting of two parts: a random email address and a random mailbox name, like the example below

uuuuuuuuuuuu@dddddddddddd.anonbox.net
https://anonbox.net/dddddddddddd/mmmmmmmmmmmm/

where d simply is a hash of date, u and m are completely random.

As you can see there is no direct connection between the email address and the mailbox name other than system and you knowing it. To get rid of this secret on anonbox side, mailbox and the email address are deleted after five minutes post a successful fetch of a delivered mail. You can check empty Mailboxes as often as you like, unfetched Mailboxes can receive as many mails as you like.

All mailboxes are removed at midnight on the following day regardless if they have received mail or were fetched.

#3.Dispostable

Again,this is another service.Just pick a random email address! you’re done..its so simple!

#4.Guerrillamail

Guerrilla Mail gives you a disposable email address. There is no need to register, simply visit Guerrilla Mail and a random address will be given. You can also choose your own address.

GuerrillaMail
Image — GuerrillaMail

You can give your email address to whoever you do not trust. You can view the email on Guerrilla Mail, click on any confirmation link, then delete it. Any future spam sent to the disposable email will be zapped by Guerrilla Mail, never reaching your mail box, keeping your mail box safe and clean.

Since Guerrilla Mail doesn’t require account registration, anyone who knows the Inbox ID may have access to that inbox. So it’s best to use a random address. To add protection, you can use the Scramble Address feature. A Scrambled Address can only be know if the Inbox ID is known and you cannot use a Scrambled as an Inbox Id. The more hard-to-guess your Inbox ID is, the better your Alias will protect you.

Guerrilla Mail deletes all email that was delivered to an inbox after 1 hour.

#5.Dropmail

Offers disposable email address for anonymous registrations on distrusted services or websites.

Key Features :

  • Unlimited mailbox lifetime. Unlike 10minutemail com & others, email is valid for an unlimited time until you refresh/close this page.10 minutes, 2 hours or an infinite amount of time are available to you — just keep the page open.
  • Unlimited number of disposable addresses: a new email address is created by one click.
  • It is safe. Each temporary email address is unique and assigned once. You are the only person who can receive your emails.
  • Built-in mail forwarding service. Disposable mailbox could be permanent.
  • Attachments allowed.
  • Instant message delivery!
  • No registration required.

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Originally published at @upnxtblog.

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KarthiKeyan Shanmugam
KarthiKeyan Shanmugam

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