Sunday, August 26, 2007

Specialty email services

E-mail is still one of the most important services that the Internet is offering. No matter what other messaging and collaboration tools are out-there, email is still the number one collaboration instrument for both corporate and home users alike.

This post presents two types of specialty email services, not well known by typical internet consumer.

Disposable email services

If you are receiving tons of spam because you give you email address to all sorts of websites, then is the time to look at one of these services that offer disposable email addresses.

You don’t have to register, or to visit the disposable email service websites ahead of time. Just think at an email address in your head and you instantly have that address.

Let’s pretend that you are filling a web form to download an interesting piece of software, when they suddenly ask your email address. Just put there testsoftware47@mailinator.com and submit the form. Next go to http://www.mailinator.com and type in the provided textbox the address you just invented. There is no need to put a password or to create an account.



Other disposable email services:

Mailinator
http://www.mailinator.com

MyTrashMail
http://www.mytrashmail.com

TemporaryInbox
http://www.temporaryinbox.com

DodgeIt
http://www.dodgeit.com


Self destructing email services

This is other specialty email service. It helps you in those situations when you want to keep an email private once it's been read. To achieve this, just open an account with one of the following services. In majority of situations the recipients will get an email containing a web address. The link will open a web page containing the actual message. Once opened the remote page destroys itself putting you in complete control (you’ll know who opened the messages and even you’ll be able to remove a message before is opened by the recipient).

Self destructing email
http://www.self-destructing-email.com

Will self destruct
http://www.willselfdestruct.com

Self destruct message
http://www.sdmessage.com

Kick notes
http://www.kicknotes.com

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