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On 18 Aug 2014 12:42, "Neil Winchurst" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:22:22 +0100
> Philip Whateley <philip.whateley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone tried mailnull (www.mailnull.com)
> >
> > This allows you to create disposable email addresses that can be
> > forwarded on to a private email address. you can then dispose of the
> > mailnull address if it gets spammed. You can choose whether to limit
> > the address by time or by number of uses.
> >
> > So for example if I create a root email address phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx I
> > can then create phil.amazon@xxxxxxxxxxxx. If amazon sell on my email
> > address I can delete phil.amazon@xxxxxxxxxxxx and create something
> > else (in fact you can create a different email address for each
> > site). The beauty is that phil@xxxxxxxxxxxx is never a live address.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> I will have a look at that. I have been looking around a lot. Many of
> the sites will accept emails but you cannot send any. The problem there
> is that I plan to use it for things like registering with a site so
> that I can look around it. The registration requires an email address,
> but then will send a confirmation email to that address which asks me
> to send an answer back. This is their way of double checking that you
> have given them a genuine address. No good if the disposable address
> will not let me send emails, only receive them.
>
> Also, I prefer a disposable address which is not linked to any of my
> actual emails. I don't really want to have these emails sent to my real
> addresses at all. IÂ want to use the disposable address as webmail,
> quite separate from any of my real ones. That way I can deal with
> unwanted emails easily.
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil
Have you looked at GMX? Or any other free webmail service? There are tonnes of them out there.
Grant
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