Which temporary email to use?

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When we want to register for a new service, especially if it is something temporary or semi-unknown, we are always afraid of leaving our real email. There are several solutions generally used. The first is that of use two email accounts: one serious and one created specifically for spam and rubbish. Another is to use solutions like AnonAddy. The other solution is to use a temporary email. But what is a temporary email? AND which temporary email to use?

Spam or not spam

As we were saying, a quick and simple solution is to keep your accounts separate: a serious one, perhaps even with a first and last name. Another account to consider disposable where we will get all the rubbish. Obviously, if you decide to do it this way, our suggestion is to use one alternative to Gmail for the serious account (like ProtonMail, Tutanota, Infomaniak or Mailboxes). The junk account, on the other hand, can be any generic one, too Gmail if you are really comfortable.

In addition to this, however, there are also other methods. One, which we talked about a short while ago, is AnonAdddy. The other are the so-called temporary emails created especially for swallow spam.

The aliases

Let's start by briefly mentioning alias services. These services create "fake" emails that will redirect the emails received to your real address and generally an infinite number of them can be generated and for this reason they can also be considered disposable emails.

• AnonAddy, one of the best alias services. Found here our review;

• SimpleLogin, on a par with AnonAddy, is one of the most professional services on the market;

• Firefox Relay, Mozilla also recently entered this market with a free and a paid version;

• Spamgourmet; if we talk about spam we cannot fail to mention it spamgourmet. It is one of the oldest existing services (it is active in fact since 2000) and offers a service similar to AnonAddy, SimpleLogin And Firefox Relay. Read the instructions for using it if you are interested because it is an intelligent system and it is complex to explain it in a few lines. Lives by donations, so if you decide to use it consistently, think about an offer!

• DuckDuckGo Email Protection, even the most famous duck on the web has decided to create its own alias service which works well but has some limitations (one of all: to sign up you have to use the their application);
• Internxt Free Temporary Email, a free service offered by the company Internxt already known for theirs drive and for their service sending files;

• Shorud.email is another interesting service for creating aliases. It is very similar in use to AnonAddy but does not have a free version: you can try it for 30 days and then pay £2 a month or £20 a year;

• Erin.email, we don't have much information about this service but we know that it is free and Open source ¹. It is not very clear how it is supported;

Which temporary email to use? The real disposable emails

The services that we will offer you now, unlike the previous ones, are not aliases that refer to your inbox. These are real temporary emails. After creating them they will self-destruct after 'x' minutes. Very useful for services that I don't really care about and on which you don't want to leave any trace. In this case it is difficult to make a list with lots of reviews because they are simple trash emails, we will make a simpler list summarizing the characteristics.

• TrashEmail it's a Telegram bots which will allow you to manage, create, delete temporary emails with different domains. AND Open source ² but always consider that you can't know what's going on Really about the bot and what data comes from Really harvests;
• AdGuard Temp Mail, a free service offered by the excellent AdGuard. Also in this case temporary email addresses are provided that are generated on the spot and can be read directly on their site;

• 10 minute email it is one of the most famous sites, it offers you an email that lasts 10 minutes (renewable);

• Guerrilla Mail, this is also one of the most famous. You can also choose your nickname and your favorite domain! And it's a project Open source ³;

• Nada offers free temporary emails that last up to 7 days ⁴;

• Temp Mail offers temporary emails with premium services with dedicated domains;

• Tempr.email similar to Temp Mail, the provider should be the same;

• There is also an extension for Firefox called Bloody Vikings! which will allow you to create temporary emails on many sites with extreme simplicity.

1. source code erine.email[↩]
2. TrashEmail on GitHub[↩]
3. Guerrilla on GitHub[↩]
4. FAQ Nada[↩]

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