Show HN: MiniMail – Disposable Email Service for Everyone (opens in new tab)

The "disposable" in "disposable email" implies that you don't intend on keeping the address around. Under that use case, the service disappearing after a year or two doesn't cause any issues, because you don't have anything persistent attached to those emails in the first place. Besides, many (most?) other email services prevent you from recovering an email address (usually because a random address is assigned to you and there's no way to pick/recover a previous address), so you're already discouraged from using them for any persistent services.

To be fair, Mailinator https://www.mailinator.com has been around since it's inception in 2003. It offers other services now, but the "disposable email" part is still there as it was from the start.

They’re disposable. The whole service is disposable. That’s the whole point.

This isn’t a redirect to your existing email a-la-iCloud+ “Hide My Email”. You close the tab and the address is gone.

It's good too that they tend to change because they'll soon get blocked for signups.

Like bugmenot accounts that only last a day or so.

https://boun.cr/ has been active for years and I use it regularly on shady sites.

https://www.guerrillamail.com/ has been around as long as I can remember.

Sneakemail.com remains online 22+ years on.

Also they quickly get added to black lists so sites wont accept them to register an account.

Mailsac had been around for 10 years.

*subdomain

Not quite true. Hide My Email is included in iCloud+, which is a paid subscription service.

Duckduckgo [0] as well.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/email/

Apple provides a disposable email? AFAIK it provides a forwarding address, which is similar but distinct from what this is.

I don't know one, but if you have Apple devices, Hide My Email may be a nice effort-free solution for you:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425

No one would dare block @icloud.com.

Also have you consider plus addresses or . addresses ("." is preferred if your email provider supports it -- harder to assume that you can just remove the dots for downstream spammers).

[EDIT] Did some quick searching, and the F/OSS community has delivered! There are at least two you could use:

- https://github.com/JoeBiellik/pleasenospam

- https://github.com/haydenwoodhead/burner.kiwi

I run a small digitalocean instance with just postfix running on it that forwards to my real email address at gmail, using aliases. It takes me under 15 seconds to log in, create a new aliases, and run 'newaliases'. This way I can keep aliases around that are important and when they start spamming, just go delete it until I need it again.

if you're using google apps (bring on the downvotes, for good reason tbh) then this is just email aliasing / fwding.

Point being that I image many mail providers offer such a thing

Try my project @ https://pretzelbox.cc.

Here's a video demo of the inbox for your domain @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyBIpO5VkLk

I made one (running on catcher.mx.ax) available here https://github.com/jawr/catcher not much in the way of documentation I’m afraid :(

AnonAddy https://github.com/anonaddy/docker

Alternatively just set up catch-all on your existing email for the domain, no extra apps needed.

MiniMail does feel like this: https://github.com/synox/disposable-mailbox

Personally I just do:

A domain + Cloudflare Email Forwarding (with catch-all)

or

A domain + Catch-all on my GSuite (or Workspace, whatever it's called now...) subscription