TrashMail.net Firefox Add-on

Martin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:00:38 +0000

Disposable email services are a great way of hiding an email account during account signups on the Internet. Many Internet services (and some computer programs as well) require an account before the service can be used. Some of these websites send unwanted emails to the user or sell the data to other companies that will then flood the email inbox with spam. Disposable email addresses are a solution to this problem. Users who want to signup for a service use one of the freely available disposable email address services to do so. All emails that are send from that website (or from spammers that bought the email address) will land in the inbox of the disposable email service. Most services of this kind delete email addresses that have been created regularly to block incoming spam.

Thrashmail.net uses a slightly different system. The service will forward incoming emails to another email address. Many other disposable email address services offer an inbox on their website which removes the requirement of having to hand out another email address.

The life span of the email address and the number of forwards can be specified on the website. The Firefox add-on for the service adds lots of comfort to using it. The add-on can be used to create new Trashmail.net email addresses and to manage previously created email addresses.

The settings are highly configurable and contain all options that are offered on the Trashmail website including a prefix for new email accounts, the lifespan, forwards and to enable a response system that will filter incoming email messages by a captcha system.

A new context menu entry is added by the add-on that can be used to add a new disposable email address to a web form. The manager displays an overview of all email addresses that have been created by the add-on. This is one of the best ways to keep track of previously used disposable email addresses.

The Firefox add-on can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.

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Disposable Email Address Yopmail

Martin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:51:02 +0000

Disposable email addresses provide the user with an easy to access temporary email address that they can use to register to services on the Internet without having to think about protecting their main email address from spam. While most Internet services are legit and do not sell the email addresses of their users some do sell them. Once an email address is on a spam list it is close to impossible to prevent spam from arriving in the mail inbox.

Disposable email addresses can be created at a wide variety of services. Yopmail is one of the newer services. The disposable email address service does not require a signup and provides access to any email address in the form @yopmail.com.

A user who wants to signup for a service that requires an email address – maybe for verification – can select any desired username for the yopmail.com domain, for example ghacks@yopmail.com. The email account can then be checked by the user and anyone else who is choosing or guessing the username.

Emails that are listed in the email account can be read and deleted. There is no way of answering an email using the disposable email address service. Mails will stay for a period of five days in the account unless they are deleted in that time by a user.

Yopmail provides a plugin for Internet Explorer, an add-on for Firefox and a widget for Opera which should please the majority of Internet users. Many other disposable email services display the emails as text messages only. Yopmail can switch to HTML emails and display the mail headers as well which is great for analyzing the contents.

Another interesting option is the ability to forward mails to another email account. That comes in handy if the email contains account specific information like usernames, passwords or security questions.

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