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by eralpb 2696 days ago
Thanks for seeing the value, after releasing this I got to know some services require session authentication, so without your password (or cookies) the bot cannot verify.

I think this was a nice experiment and still usable for many services.

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You could let people pass the username/password in as part of the email tag, like:

guerillaemail+myusername-mypassword@gmail.com

As others have clarified, only for complete throwaway accounts obviously. I tested '-' and '!' and those characters appear acceptable as the delimiter. ':' gives a very strange error on send when using gmail.com. Also imagine you'd lose some letter casing along the way.

Really just a fun and terrible idea!