"Larry(LJL269)" wrote in message
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I have free accounts at Mailshell (tested beta vers
but dont create any new addys) & SpamGourmet.com which
call themselves disposable but act like aliases as u
describe above. I do assign a new addy to each
recipient altho u dont have to so I know who spammed
me. I do remove myself b4 letting an addy expire.

I'll look at Sneakemail & compare to to 2 above. TY 4
tip.

I didn't see any free e-mail alias service at mailshell.com. Didn't see
anything about e-mail aliases but just anti-spam stuff. What does
mailshell.com offer that is actually free?

SpamGourmet.com uses the concept of adding a string to your username as
though that constitutes hiding your e-mail address. You divulge an e-mail
address like:



where someword is a random string and x is the number of times it can be
used. Otherwise, the rest of it is just like defining a disposable webmail
account anywhere else. I saw no mention of how they protect you when you
reply to a mail sent through their alias. It seems a one-way service: they
hide the destination e-mail address but only for inbound mails. If you
reply to a message that came through their alias, you are still sending that
reply through your own mail server, not theirs. When replying to mails
received through a Sneakemail alias, yes, they will go through your mail
server but the destination for that reply is to Sneakemail which then strips
out all the headers and adds Sneakemail-only headers so your mail looks like
it originated from there. Services that hide you only for inbound mails are
nothing more than forwarding services, like Bigfoot.com. They don't accept
any e-mails from you, including any replies you make to those mails received
through an alias or forwarding account.

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