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 3. Airmail - Randomized, Disposable Email Addresses

 Airmail is another private email service that is quite similar to Mailinator, though with more privacy. You click a button, and get a random email automatically along with a unique code that lets you view any emails that address receives online without a password.

 To get a new email address, just go to the Airmail site and click the Get Temporary Email button. Seconds later, an inbox view will load with your new randomly assigned email address and the unique access code in the address bar. You'll need to make note of both—or copy the URL with both codes in the address—to be able to see any emails you receive.

 For example, say the email address I was randomly assigned was tutyw@grandmasmail.com, and in my browser's address bar, it showed the address as getairmail.com/tutyw/INGX. In this case, the first code is the address of the email (it does not include the randomly assigned domain name), and INGX was my unique code. In the future, to access the mailbox, just type out or copy the URL from the browser's address bar and you'll be able to access your email—though this will only work up to 24 hours after you last visited the page, after which time the emails will be deleted.

 A random disposable email address in Airmail.

 Another public option for a free temporary email address is MailDrop. This service provides throwaway email addresses that are cleared after 24 hours of inactivity.

 To get a MailDrop email address, simply type a user name in the blank in the upper right in front of @maildrop.cc. Then, click the GO > button to see any messages sent to that email address.

 For example, if I typed the user name web-designer in the blank, my temporary email address would be web-designer@maildrop.cc.

 Maildrop Disposable Email Address

 A temporary email address using Maildrop.

 There are limits on the messages a MailDrop inbox can receive. Each MailDrop inbox is limited to receiving ten messages. The size limit for received messages is 100k. Plus, any attachments to a message sent to a MailDrop inbox are stripped from the message and thrown away. So, MailDrop is not a good option for sharing files.

 It's also important to note that MailDrop inboxes are not private. Anyone with the email address can see the messages in the inbox.

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 Abine is a company dedicated to privacy. All their products are designed with that goal in mind. Blur is no exception.

 Blur is available as an extension for Firefox or for Android and Apple devices. It creates masked email accounts on-the-spot for when you need to enter your email address into an online form. Masked email addresses provided by Blur cannot be traced back to you.

 Abine Blur Disposable Email

 Use anonymous email addresses from Abine Blur to hide your real email address.

 After you've filled out a form using an anonymous email address provided by Blur, you can log into the site and check for messages sent to your masked email addresses. You can also forward messages sent to an anonymous email address to your real email. If you find that a particular anonymous email address is being bombarded by spam, simply turn the forwarding off.

 Abine Blur is designed to keep more than just your real email information private, though. It can also help you store passwords securely. And, the premium version can also mask your phone number and credit card number. You can even use a masked credit card number to make an online purchase.

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 Information stored using Blur is extremely secure. It's encrypted with your password. Even Abine can't access your data.

 Mailsac bills itself as a service that provides anonymous email addresses that can be used for testing. Like many of the other services, the emails are public if you simply use the generator located on the site. Mailsac also gives you the option to create a private account.

 To use a free email address, simply type in your user name in the blank on the email generator.

 Mailsac Disposable Email Address

 Setting up a disposable email address with Mailsac.

 Click the Check the mail! button to see any messages sent to that email address.

 You can use MailSac to avoid getting spam in your regular email address, to sign up for online services, or for testing. However, it's important to remember that messages received through the public version of MailSac are not permanent. Messages will be deleted from public inboxes as soon as three days after they are received, although this may vary.

 You can use MailSac to avoid getting spam in your regular email address, to sign up for online services, or for testing. However, it's important to remember that messages received through the public version of MailSac are not permanent. Messages will be deleted from public inboxes as soon as three days after they are received, although this may vary.

 Mailsac is open source through GitHub. You can view the API documents and API access is available for paid accounts. Because it's scalable and can use popular protocols such as POP3 access, it's a great choice for testing.

 Gmail isn't the only traditional email service that offers disposable email addresses. Yahoo! Mail has disposable email addresses built in, and they're really unique addresses, not just the email aliases that Gmail offers.

 Yahoo! Mail disposable email addresses consist of a base name and a keyword. All the addresses you create will be structured as basename-keyword@yahoo.com. The base name can only be set once and must be unique—all your addresses will share the same base name. You are then allowed to create up to 500 keywords, giving you up to 500 unique email addresses in your one account.

 To setup your base name, log in to your Yahoo account, click the Settings icon on the top right of the page, and then click Settings on the drop-down menu. Then, click Security. There, you'll find a Create Base Name option; select it, then choose a private name to use at the beginning of your disposable email addresses. After you have created a base name, click Add to add your keywords for specific addresses. You will then be able to choose whether to block spam and use filters by default on that address, and which inbox to forward the email to.

 How to create a Yahoo disposable email address.

 You can then use the new Yahoo disposable email addresses as you would any other disposable email address. You can even choose the address in the Yahoo! Mail app when you're composing a new email, if you want.

 It's worth remembering that your Yahoo! email addresses aren't 100% private—they're more private than Gmail aliases, of course, but they're still tied to your primary email account. They're great for most temporary email address uses, though, and give you more privacy than Gmail with the same benefits of having your emails in one inbox, and the simple ability to filter them as you'd like.

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