Are you tired and bored or even upset of all the spam in your inbox?
There are many good spam filters these days but you can never be sure if they will tag some email is as spam even if it is ok. You need to take a look in the spam folder now and then to be really sure…
I have almost no spam at all. I mean I don’t even need a spam filter. Almost no spam at all!
How come? Well, the number one method is to never, means NEVER, give out your email address to any one, except the one that you can trust 100%
But still you want to register on sites and some of them are not trustworthy…
Here are 4 free methods to be completely free from spam and still give away your email address to any site.
- Get yourself a special spam email address. It can be any free email service such as Google email, Yahoo email or anything else. Whenever you give away your email address to some site or unknown person you will use this special spam address. This works like a charm but it has one big problem. This email address will be flooded by spam and maybe you want to keep in touch with some of these contacts. You can never find out if some of them gave away your email address to a spammer.
- mailinator.com It is an excellent service if you just want 1 or a few emails from your contact. For instance you just want some code or or confirmation email once. Just give the address x@malinator.com (where x is any text you want). No need to register this address, just use it. There are some pros and cons with this. First anyone can read the emails. The trick is to use a strange name with little risk that someone will find. If you use peter@mailinator.com you can be sure that hundreds or thousands of people will read the emails but peter1043493470@malinator.comwill probably not be read. The email will disappear after a few hours. Any given mailbox will only hold 10 emails at once. All attachments are stripped out.
- www.whspr.me is a similar service. You register at their site and you can set how long that email address will live. It has similar problems as mentioned in the first bullet.
- This is my real favorite: spamgourmet.com have it all. First of all you register once to get your own private email address. You also link it to your normal email address. For instance you register the address obama@xoxy.com (there are some predefined domain names to use, such as spamgourmet.com, xoxy.com, antichef.com etc) but you will never use this address. Instead you will prefix text in front of it to build up a unique email address each time. You will get an excellent way to track who got your address. For instance if you register at the site strange.com you can use strange.5.obama@xoxy.com This means that you only want 5 emails from strange.5.obama@xoxy.com. The emails will come to your normal email inbox, remember? After 5 emails you will never see anything else coming. You can use any number up to 20. Furthermore, if you will get emails from some other place to strange.5.obama@xoxy.com, you will know exactly that only strange.com received it. You know who to trust. There are many other functions. You can reset the counter if you want more emails, you can set a from-address that will not be counted and so on. Read the FAQ for yourself! I have used this service for several years now and never had any problems with them, except from one thing. Sometimes it will take a long time before the email reaches your inbox. That can be annoying during a registering process.
