[StavrosK]

My favorite disposable email provider, by far, is 33mail.com, mainly because the addresses don't have to be disposable. You give a different email address to each service, and, if you get spam, you know the culprit and can block them right away.

Brilliant.

[greenyoda]

You can do the same with http://spamgourmet.com.

[StavrosK]

Very nice! I need one that's also a Mozilla Persona provider, maybe I'll write my own one weekend...

[goodlook33]

Thanks for the tip. I always forget about these because the domains they use are usually too silly (they should just let us use raw IP addresses); and also because I use email so infrequently. Mailinator seems the only one I remember. There's another disposable email provider... I can't remember the name... the accounts are time-limited. Truthfully, it's an email forwarder; they ask for a personal email address. (Maybe you could forward to another disposable email provider.) You can choose to have the account last hours or days. I know I've seen it mentioned on HN.

[Alex3917]

You can also just add +domain to the local-part of your email address and do that without needing a disposable email service. Theoretically some sites may strip them out, but I doubt that many go to the trouble.

[ersii]

Please do note that there's quite a few services that do not recognize '+' as a valid character for who knows reasons. I don't know why though.

[bobcattr]

That only works with gmail.

[rbolkey]

It does work on gmail, but is definitely not gmail specific. Used to do that trick on my college email account.

[michaelhoffman]

It works for many mail servers, including Gmail.

[Firehed]

Also any Google Apps servers. Seems like a lot of extra work to look up a domain's MX records to figure out if it's safe to strip anything after + from their email address, which will only serve to annoy your users anyway.

[bobcattr]

which others? doesn't do it on sendmail or postfix

[emiliobumachar]

Yahoo! Mail has such a feature, which I use and love. They do call it "disposable addresses", because you dump them when they start bringing spam.