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by FpUser 1127 days ago
>"All inboxes are public."

What does that mean exactly? Hopefully not that everybody else can look at my "throwaway" inbox.
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racingmars 1127 days ago
>>"All inboxes are public."

>What does that mean exactly? Hopefully not that everybody else can look at my "throwaway" inbox.

It means exactly that. This is in the spirit of the old free version of Mailinator. Use a randomly generated string as the local part of the address to prevent others from guessing and looking that that inbox.

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zinxq 1127 days ago
Mailinator of course still works this way too. It has private domains, but it still fully supports public,free,disposable addresses @mailinator.com.

Just enter any inbox you want at the top of the homepage.

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quickthrower2 1127 days ago
Your email address is the secret, so yeah anyone who sends you email can see your inbox.
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