Temporary Email

By Tom Jenkins at May 20, 2010 22:42
Filed Under: Technology

Tired of all the spam in your inbox from signup forms. Go on over to mytrashmail.com and get a temporary email address. Below is the information from their site.

How it works

Any time you are asked for an email address to sign up a newletter, register at a forum, etc, use a phantasy email with one of our active domain names (see list Active / Inactive Email Domains above)
Example Email Addresses:

  • testing123456@trash2009.com
  • myAnonymousEmailbla12@trash2009.com

In case you will receive an email (a confirmation email, a serial code, etc), just visit myTrashMail.com and pick it up here.
You don't have to register any account with us, nor do you need any password. Your account is created on the fly. mytrashmail.com

 

Available Tools


Advanced Forwarding
Forward emails to your private email account.

 


Secure Temporary Email
Create your own, private temporary email account.Set here

 


RSS Feed
Connect your feed reader to any email account.

 


Google Toolbar (Firefox/IE Explorer)
Add myTrashMail.com to your Google Toolbar and access your anonymous email account instantly. Install here

 


Free Spam Blocker
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So you want a cheap personal email account…

By Tom Jenkins at May 09, 2010 17:56
Filed Under: Technology, Guides

All you need is a domain name and a google account. A personal email for under $1.00 USD.

Step 1

Get a domain name from a provider. You can get low cost domain names from http://www.godaddy.com you can get TLDs for as little as $0.89 USD a year. Don’t select any additional options like add a website or email.

Step 2

googleappsfeaturesGo to Google Apps for Domains page and create an account by clicking the get started button on the right (seen below). The basic business account is free and you get all the features listed to the right.

You get enterprise compatible services and can sync your email, calendar, and contacts using Microsoft Exchange Server settings from the iPhone.

Use the wizard to set up the features you want to use. You can choose “Manage your Domain” option in the links at the top to set various domain features. In your Domain Dashboard click on the Email Link seen Below.

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You will get some options to modify your email settings scroll down to click on this link:

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In this link you will get detailed instructions on how to configure you MX records for godaddy, networksolutions, and many others.

Step 3

Log back into your hosting account, for this example we used godaddy for their cheap domain name registrations. Modify the MX records like the instructions noted.

Step 4

That’s it, you just have to wait up to 72 hours for the changes to be updated to all the DNS servers.