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Host your own temporary email service (like maskr.me)?
Hi all,
I've been using maskr.me for a little while. It is useful to use when signing up for services where you don't know whether they'll sign you up to spam when you give them your email address. Its a simple service - create a [email protected] email address which redirects to your real address. If you star to get spam to that address simply deactivate that email alias in the control panel.
The only thing I haven't used it for is any services that store payment details. I figured if maskr.me are acting as the middle man, they could in theory be reading email when forwarding it on.
Does anyone know if a 'host your own' solution is around? I'm thinking registering another domain name, create one mail box against it then have a front end control panel to create aliases and drop them if/when they get spammed.
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Couldn't you just do this with something like mxroute (vestacp) or buyshared (cpanel)?
I doubt you will find one as easy to use, but if you don't mind doing some of the work yourself you could just sign up for any cPanel account, create the aliases and forwarding yourself and then deactivate that alias if they spam you.
Maskr have obviously just written a nice interface to do the same thing, I suppose a shared hosting system with a nice API should be able to handle this.
Just use postfix and use mysql as a backend for aliases, then code up a web interface to add/remove the aliases.
https://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/mail-server-configuring-postfix-to-use-mysql
http://maildrop.cc
I can vouch for the practicality of that. I use shard hosting that comes with a well managed mail server. It only takes a few seconds to make or delete accounts.
I recently set up a postfix server on a LEB. It works well for me, but one of the things I learnt from doing that is how valuable a professionally managed service is.
That looks like the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks.
I'd love to be able to roll my own from scratch, but I don't have the know-how to write my own front end and DB. I'll see if I can implement my own version of maildrop
They could also be collecting a huge list of emails to sell to spammers.
If you trust Google with your email... let's say your email is nimdy [at] gmail.com and you want to sign up to dodgysite.com, use the following email:
nimdy+dodgysite [at] gmail.com
When you don't want to receive emails from dodgysite any more, set up a filter to delete any email to it.
Mailinator also does a (free) private version, where mails are only viewable by you. I haven't used it, but the info is on their site/blog.
I wrote this before I realised by "host your own", you meant on your own servers, but I'll post it anyway in case anyone else is interested/didn't know about it.
I can confirm that such a setup works great and doesn't require a lot of coding. You can also setup postfix to act like @LV426 described and then filter/drop emails with Sieve rules.
Another option would be to purchase a domain from Namecheap and setup free email forwarding. So [email protected] forwards to [email protected]
Sure others have similar service.
I use virtualmin and have an alias for spam. Works well for me
It's not so high tech, but how about just editing /etc/aliases and then running 'newaliases' ?
been using
http://temp-mail.org
https://grr.la/ryo/
It's the whitelabel / your own domain version of the well known Guerrilla Mail.
Although it is not self hosted. And it's not free.
Kinda stupid, don't you think so?
Create a catchit email at one of your unused domains. Then you can signup to such services like %random%@domain.com. No script is needed and all the mail you don't want to see is gathered in one place. It's up to you to delete, mark as spam, filter or whatever else you want to do.
Interesting, I have a domain I'm not using that might work pretty well with this
https://github.com/ruffrey/mailsac
can I setup my own mailsac?
Before I can tell you what I think, I first have to know what it is you're talking about.
Well, glad I found your post. I had developed a application which you can use to create your own Disposable Email Service.
I had developed 2 version, one of which is FREE and available at Github - https://github.com/harshitpeer/TMail-Lite
Another one is premium and is available to buy from CodeCanyon - https://codecanyon.net/item/tmail-multi-domain-temporary-email-system/20177819
Instructions to setup are pretty clear and straightforward. But just incase if you are new and don’t know much about how to setup web application or so, then you can find a Video Tutorial, right on this page - https://harshitpeer.com/blog/host-your-own-disposable-email-app/
I suggest you start with FREE version and then incase if you feel like Upgrading, then go for the PAID version.
That's convenient how you stumbled upon a 4 year old post
Use this https://10minutemail.com
@harshitpeer: Don't necro such an old post; it shows that you're not paying attention.
Let me guess: you did a Google search, found this thread, signed up to advertise your service, and have now disappeared.
Code quality is shit also.