A disposable or a temporary email account is an email address where you can receive emails and discard immediately or when the user decides. There are number of reasons why you would want to use a temporary address, of which the most common is privacy and keeping your original address clean from spam and marketing emails.
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Hide My Ass (HMA) Anonymous Email Service
HMA is a popular anonymity provider which also offers a disposable but password protected email account for receiving emails only. You just have to fill out a very short form, that’s all. Go to https://support.hidemyass.com/hc/en-us/articles/115013851307-Decommissioned-Services-Anonymous-Email and get started.
Guerilla Mail
The unique feature Guerilla mail offers is that you can also send an attachement file of size up to 150 MB too.
But the downside here is that the emails will be deleted after 1 hour.
Mailinator
It is a web based disposable email service which only requires a browser and an internet connection. To get an email address, simply make up any log in name you can think of and add the domain @mailinator at the end. For example mynameiskevin@mailinator.com, and there you go! You have an email address.
Now to check the emails you receive in that email account, simply go to www.mailinator.com .
In the Check Any Inbox , type your log in name. For example, type mynameiskevin and click GO .
Mailcatch
Mailcatch provides similar services like Mailinator such as log in name of your choice it also offers the RSS feed feature
Simply go to www.mailcatch.com and enter the email on the upper right corner in the check inbox section.
To get emails as an RSS feed, click RSS after entering you desired email log in.
MyTrashMail
MyTrashMail is also a well-known temporary email service provider which along with the above email receiving service also offers the functionality set email forwarding option on the temporary email address so that the emails received on the temporary email are forwarded to your email address.
To set email forwarding, go to http://www.mytrashmail.com and enter the required information. Also you can set if you want a specified number of emails to be forwarded or for a specified time period.
ThrowAwayMail
A temporary email service that only provides an inbox and it couldn’t be any simpler in terms of user interface.
Simply go to www.ThrowAwayMail.com and you will be given a randomly generated email address. You can use it wherever you like and can see the email received on it for as long you keep that page opened as the email address will change the next time you open this website.
