Disposable email addresses

[clo...@gmail.com]

It would be nice if Gmail had this feature.

[Andy]

> It would be nice if Gmail had this feature.

It does.

1. You can use "plus addressing" with your existing account.

"myname+stuff @ gmail.com" --> gets delivered to "myname @ gmail.com"

2. Gmail accounts are free. Create one, use it until you don't need
it anymore, then close it.

Unfortunately, some people don't accept email addresses with a plus
sign in them, which can limit the usefulness of (1).

Andy

[Randy Harmelink]

(1) is customized address, not a disposable address. That can be useful for filtering purposes, but how would you turn it off? The whole purpose of a disposable address is that you can throw it away when it's no longer needed. For example, if the service I am using it for sells it to a promotional group. To stop receiving those emails, I would have to write a filter rule for that address. Allowing disposal of the address would make it easier.

Yahoo allows you to create a delivery-only address that can easily be deleted (i.e. disposed of) so that no further mail would be received by it.

[P McG-G]

The last time I checked, Yahoo had discontinued the disposable feature which was only available on Premium accounts.

[Randy Harmelink]

Disposable addresses still work on Yahoo. I just created a new one and sent an email to it. I received the email just fine.

It was the first new one I've created since I started using them on GMail. One disadvantage with the process on GMail is that some websites consider a "+" character an invalid one in an email address.

[P McG-G]

Do you use a free or premium Yahoo account?

[Randy Harmelink]

Premium.

[P McG-G]

I had a Premium Yahoo account for several years and used disposable addresses extensively. One day I got a message from Yahoo saying they were discontinuing the feature. Apparently they've changed their mind.