10 Minute mail vs. Temporaryinbox
In a world where spam makes most of the internet traffic you have to find a way to keep your inbox clean. The times where spamfilters could catch all the spam in your inbox are long gone and when you give away your email adress frequently for signing up to web based services you are most likely to receive spam mails very soon.
This is where 10 Minute mail and Temporaryinbox join the game. Both services provide you with disposable mailadresses which you can use for signing up to webservices or using them in other environments with a high spam potential.
While the 10 Minute mail approach is time based and the email addresses destroy themselfs after 10 minutes if you do not extend them manually, temporary inbox will setup accounts that are not time limited.
Although 10 Minute mails service is working quite nice and simple and the design is easy to use even with text based browsers, the Temporaryinbox provides a much better functionality in terms of features.
After 10 Minute mail setup a random email address for you they redirect you to a small overview which shows you the inbox of the emailadress and the time it remains valid. You can extend the mail adress for an other 10 minutes and see the emails that arrived. Clicking on the subject shows you the mail and gives you the possibility to send a reply to the sender.
Temporaryinbox in general does the same - providing you with a disposable mailadress. But compared to 10 Minute mail their service is loaded with features. They let you choose between the unregistered version where you can get a disposable inbox on their system and a registered version (both free) that allows forwarding their disposable adress to your own mail address.
An other nice thing that they offer is that you have free choice over the user part of the mailadress if you want to. They also let you choose one of the domainnames temporaryinbox.com,put2.net,senseless-entertainment.com,afrobacon.com,golfilla.info and give you some more control over the configuration.
Topping all the above features they also provide the possibility to read your disposable inbox ass rss. which will allow easy integration in feed aggregators, webpages and other scripts. Even extensions for Firefox and InternetExplorer are available and round up the whole process.
Although Temporaryinbox lacks the very useful feature to reply directly from the webpage the service shines with the thoughtful implementation of their features. As 10 Minute mail is a brand new service it might just keep a while to keep up with Temporaryinbox. For now both services are providing very successful weapons in the fight against spam.
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