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Show HN: MiniMail - Disposable Email Service for Everyone
Author : zenull
Score : 54 points
Date : 2022-06-26 16:02 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (minimail.eu.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (minimail.eu.org)
| SpikeDad wrote:
| Just to remind folks Apple provides this service for all iOS
| devices automatically.
| mynameisvlad wrote:
| Apple provides a _disposable email_? AFAIK it provides a
| forwarding address, which is similar but distinct from what
| this is.
| scblzn wrote:
| Afaik it's bit more complex than a forwarding address as it
| allows replies from the user behind too (while still being
| protected) [1][2]
|
| [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_ap
| ple...
|
| [2] https://support.apple.com/guide/mail/use-hide-my-email-
| mlhl4...
| rodric wrote:
| Not quite true. Hide My Email is included in iCloud+, which is
| a paid subscription service.
| skellera wrote:
| Free for services that use Sign in with Apple. Need iCloud+
| for generating addresses outside of that.
|
| Also, 99 cents a month for the cheapest plan isn't too bad
| for everything it gives you. If you're in the iOS/Apple
| ecosystem, it's a worthwhile purchase.
| fffrantz wrote:
| Duckduckgo [0] as well.
|
| [0] https://duckduckgo.com/email/
| ivberrOg wrote:
| that leads to a prompt to install a browser addon (for me)..
| this might be helpful https://duckduckgo.com/email/faq
| rikkipitt wrote:
| https://www.paced.email and https://www.vend.email are two
| services that I developed that provide "disposable" email
| addresses.
|
| Paced Email is a productivity tool with the ability to add team
| members, rules, etc and paces your mail into regular digests.
|
| Vend Email is similar to Firefox Relay but has the added benefit
| of email forwarder transferability to other users.
| pandemicsoul wrote:
| The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's
| easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of
| these services and so few non-technical people understand the
| need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be
| viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the
| overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't
| trust any of these services to stick around...
| zinxq wrote:
| To be fair, Mailinator https://www.mailinator.com has been
| around since it's inception in 2003. It offers other services
| now, but the "disposable email" part is still there as it was
| from the start.
| Rebelgecko wrote:
| Similarly spamgourmet has been around since 2001 and other
| than some brief outages (around the time the founder was
| sadly struggling with a terminal illness and figuring out
| succession plans) it's doing fine.
| deadalus wrote:
| https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it
| regularly on shady sites.
| amelius wrote:
| Do you have something similar for telephone numbers? (Often
| required to receive verification codes in text messages).
| jenscow wrote:
| Search for "receive sms online"
|
| Sorry for the "lmgtfy" type of answer, but I generally do
| that search then pick a site at random.
| thih9 wrote:
| Whenever I try that, the number doesn't work. I either
| get an error message that the number isn't valid, or the
| text never arrives.
|
| I think I tried with it with Twitter, Instagram and
| Google (when they asked me for a phone number and I
| didn't want to give my real one); this was about two
| years ago. Does anyone have better results?
| collegeburner wrote:
| Google voice is the best option I found, however some
| sites block it. Trying too many disposable numbers on
| some sites makes your account banned (intstagram and
| google do this I know).
|
| People demand phone number because it's like a digital
| SSN. Not private but damn hard to get more than a few of
| them.
| GekkePrutser wrote:
| It's good too that they tend to change because they'll soon get
| blocked for signups.
|
| Like bugmenot accounts that only last a day or so.
| zozbot234 wrote:
| Services tend to be blocked when they get abused by spammers.
| So if you want something like this to last, it would make
| sense to heavily leverage either plain old CAPTCHA's or the
| newer privacy-preserving "proofs of human presence".
| gruez wrote:
| The "disposable" in "disposable email" implies that you don't
| intend on keeping the address around. Under that use case, the
| service disappearing after a year or two doesn't cause any
| issues, because you don't have anything persistent attached to
| those emails in the first place. Besides, many (most?) other
| email services prevent you from recovering an email address
| (usually because a random address is assigned to you and
| there's no way to pick/recover a previous address), so you're
| already discouraged from using them for any persistent
| services.
| itake wrote:
| The emails are disposable, not the service. This causes
| issues b/c you're constantly having to find and change
| providers.
| milosmns wrote:
| Eh, I don't know if that's really a problem. Query "10
| minute mail" in Google gives hundreds of results within a
| millisecond, so... you do this lookup once in 2 years and
| you're done? Really don't feel like it's a big deal, at
| least for me
| wonderbore wrote:
| They're disposable. The whole service is disposable. That's the
| whole point.
|
| This isn't a redirect to your existing email a-la-iCloud+ "Hide
| My Email". You close the tab and the address is gone.
| ruffrey wrote:
| Mailsac had been around for 10 years.
| tbrownaw wrote:
| Sure, but how long until the sites that require an email to set
| up a new account add this to their list of blocked providers (or
| just switch to requiring a sms number like some of the bigger
| sites already do)?
|
| Or ar least I'm assuming that's a primary use case for something
| like this.
| vmoore wrote:
| For those wondering about the domain it's a service called EU.org
| which allows for free domain names (since 1996!)
|
| https://nic.eu.org/
| [deleted]
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