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The Mailinator

  • What is Mailinator?

    Mailinator is a different kind of email service. The biggest difference is that you don't need to sign up. Any email name you can think of already exists @mailinator.com and you can use any of them. Want [email protected]? You got it. Want PrettyMothra? ScaryGavyn? No problem. Those and any other mailboxes you think of @mailinator.com are created when email arrives! Really.
  • How is Mailinator different than some other web email, like Yahoo or Hotmail?

    Mailinator is fundamentally quite different from other services. Other services let you "own" email addresses. Not here - at Mailinator all email addresses are owned by everyone. All email is public. Also, email services like Gmail or Yahoo allow you to actually send email - Mailinator is "receive-only". You cannot send email from Mailinator. Got an email from Mailinator? No you didn't - someone forged the return address. Send us the headers of any email that appears to be from Mailinator and we can show you the computer it actually came from. ([email protected]) After several hours, all email is auto-deleted. There is no real security here. The upside is that Mailinator does not require sign-up. Send email to a name, and the account is created automagically. In a nutshell, other services provide more functionality but require a sign-up (which takes time, even if you falsify all the information anyway). Mailinator provides less, but requires no sign-up.
  • Do I want this?

    Are you Kidding? YOU SURE DO ! In our internet world, you often need an email address NOW. And you probably already have an email address - and that probably works great for most emailing. But every now and then you need a quick email address for just a single email. After that you don't care what happens to it. Given that such an email address is ready in an instant - really, it was ready even before you knew you needed it - you can avoid giving out your real email address. Instead, make up any address @mailinator.com on the spot and go check it later.

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