Mailexpire.com – Free and awesome way to avoid spam

April 20, 2005 By Jonathan Ping 5 Comments
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nospam.gifThis is slightly off-topic, but I’m constantly annoyed that whenever you want to simply read a news story or use their “free” service, sites often make you register and provide your name, e-mail, address, etc. I mean, it’s obvious that the only reason to do that is to (1) get demographic information for advertisers and (2) to sell your e-mail and contact info to those advertisers. Please note that MyMoneyBlog does not record or share any e-mail addresses left in the comments. In fact, an e-mail address isn’t even required to post.

I’ve already posted about BugMeNot.com, which helps this. But sometimes, BugMeNot doesn’t have the login or you might need to get an e-mail from the site. MailExpire.com helps alleviate this by letting you set a temporary e-mail address that forwards to your real e-mail address.

For example, right now I can sign up newsletters, websites, etc, and with ‘mrozohiams@kriocoucke.mailexpire.com’ and all e-mail will go to my real e-mail. If I start getting spam, I can kill the mailexpire address, and my Inbox stays clean(er).

You can choose a lifespan of 12 hours to 3 months, and change it at any time. The service is free, and I can’t find any catch, other than the fact that they now know your e-mail address. According to their privacy statement, they won’t use it for anything. Good enough for me.

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Last updated: June 26, 2012
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Comments

  1. Mickj says
    April 20, 2005 at 9:29 pm

    Sneakemail.com is a similiar service that is free, better if you ask me.

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  2. JD says
    April 20, 2005 at 9:29 pm

    I don’t subscribe to any email newsletter. Anything worth reading for me MUST offer RSS Feed. 😉

    Btw, I hope you are aware about Mailinator. http://www.mailinator.com/ They give you an email address even without registering! Great for those sites who wants to confirm your email for download etc.

    JD

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  3. Chandra says
    April 20, 2005 at 10:49 pm

    Wow, nice tips you have here! I’m visiting because you commented in my blog.

    You seem to have similar goals to my husband and I, so I plan to read some of your tips as we are always trying to one-up our savings and watchful spending of money.

    Considering we’re in our mid-to-late 20’s, I think we’re doing a whole lot better than most people. One could always use more tips, though!

    Reply
  4. Cap says
    April 22, 2005 at 1:17 pm

    another good site is http://www.bugmenot.com

    similiar features.

    Reply
  5. Rachel Knox says
    July 20, 2016 at 5:49 pm

    Unfortunately it looks like MailExpire has shut down 🙁

    Since the site shut down, I’ve started using EmailOnDeck.com. Great temp email service.

    Reply

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