Spamgourmet

The Internet service spamgourmet offers since October 29, 2000 disposable email addresses to protect the user against spam. The service is free and is funded by Google AdSense advertising. The name of the service is composed of spam and Gourmet and points out that the purpose of this service is " swallowed " or " eating of " unwanted advertising e-mails.

Operation

If required an email address on the Internet, then a spamgourmet address can be specified. It is then forwarded by spamgourmet in the address (see below) fixed number mails to the correct mail account and the following mails to this address are ignored by spamgourmet.

It can also be answered on incoming mail without betraying their own email address.

After registration, the user never needs to visit the site again. Registered users can automatically determine the number of disposable email addresses by often invent any new disposable addresses. If you want to invent new email addresses, you can " show hidden disposable addresses " in the submenu to set the counter of used addresses to zero.

Structure of the e-mail addresses

Mail addresses of spamgourmet are basically constructed as follows:

Any words can be any string of numbers and letters. If the user has stored in Professional mode a prefix, the string must begin with this prefix. The number of mails parameter determines how many messages are forwarded to this address. It can have a number from 1 to 20, or words that begin with the letters A to T are specified. The prefix code word and number of emails you are not absolutely necessary. If the indication number mails omitted, the user gets at most as many messages as specified in the user settings (default in establishing an spamgourmet e- mail address is three, the highest allowable value twenty). The user name is specified in the notification.

Applications, known issues

Typical applications for such addresses are forums, software registrations, newsletter, etc. Since spam Gourmet swallowed without comment after the expiry of the valid number of mails should not be used for confidential correspondence of the service.

As the service has now reached some notoriety spamgourmet -mail addresses are no longer accepted by some Internet services that are financed through the sale of email addresses. Moreover, even prevent numerous Internet forums with registration forced the use of spamgourmet addresses to curb the registration of Troll accounts. On the website of spamgourmet to find alternative addresses to bypass this problem.

Open Source

The software spam Gourmet is open source and is interested users on request mailed or is available on SourceForge.

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