16 Jan 06 Instant disposable Gmail addresses
Let’s say you need to sign up for a mailing list that interests you, but you’re afraid spammers might get your address. We’ll call the list “exoticflowers”.
Sign up with the list using the address “johndoe+exoticflowers@gmail.com”. Email to that address will still come to your “johndoe@gmail.com” address even though the “To:” will include that “+exoticflowers” in it.
Then set up Gmail filters to shuttle that +exoticflowers email past the inbox to a specific label.
Via | Lifehacker.com | Kevingunn.org
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This is not a good idea. This “+” notation is well known, and spammers can easily remove everything after the “+” and gain your regular mailadress. using trashmail or a similar Provider is easier and safer!
Thomas makes a very important (and actually quite obvious point).
Just wanted to recommend another ‘disposable’ email service — SPAMGOURMET.COM — amazing features (automatic disposable, refillable, whitelist of senders,etc)..and free!
Another amazing tool is sneakemail.com .. complex interface, but if you figure out how you can auto-create disposable addresses. $2/6 mos.
dodgeit.com is another convenient site to use
Yup, another service is Yahoo Plus — they give you *real* disposable emails. You can’t figure out who it’s really from.
This gmail feature original drew in but then I realized @thomas@ is right …
I use 10 minute mail to create disposable email addresses and it works like charm as they change the domain names of the mail ids on a regular basis.