Ask HN: Email token service

1 points by siscia 11y ago ↗ HN

Hi HN,

there is any "email token" service out there ?

I mean that I would like to generate every time a new email address (something crazy like: b4ver94v89ir@crazydomain.io) and use that email address to register to only one single service.

When I receive an email to that address, the email it forwarded to my own, "real" address.

As soon as I start to get spam from a particular token I can simply stop the forwarding of email.

Is anything like that available ?

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scheda 11y ago ↗

You could easily use something like Mailinator (or their Pro service) for something like this.

mc_hammer 11y ago ↗

yea the phrase used for indexing on google is "one time email address" 10minutemail i guess?

siscia 11y ago ↗

Dear friend,

your message show that you haven't even read my message.

I appreciate your reply, but next time, please, take time to read the message you are replying to.

Best.

afics 11y ago ↗

Shameless self-plug.

If you are running postfix as your mail server, you could use something like [0] (or write your own solution, utilizing a database or whatever, of course).

[0] https://github.com/afics/vmailmgrpy