Online shopping or downloading apps can be so much fun but the minute you are required to enter your email id the entire excitement goes for a toss. The next thing that strikes your mind is the endless spam that is going to flood your inbox. And for most people, especially women, the greater threat is losing out your privacy and revealing your online identity to an anonymous source.
In most cases you only share your email id when you have established a certain extent of trust and repo with the other person, which you surely want to be both reciprocated and respected. Forget external platforms, even in your organization your privacy and security is often in the hands of an unknown security procedure.
What if you had an email id that would take care of the aforementioned threats? Or for that matter how about having a disposable email address? Well, that’s a reality. With services like Spamex, Mailinator and MailDrop, you can create these one-time-use IDs. Once used, their purpose is over. Then you needn’t worry about who can view them or which database is housing these. What’s more? With these services you don’t even need any kind of sign up. You can simply check the inbox by typing your chosen e-mail address.
How to Get the ID
The process is simple. Each time you want to register for a product or a service, you can make use of the MailDrop, which in turn connects the email id through a ‘cc’ format (@maildrop.cc). As a result you end up creating a new unique id, each time you use a MailDrop e-mail address. Let your thought process take a bizarre ride and you can come up with some innovative IDs that can add a new zing to your online dealings.
However, you need to play smart as MailDrop does not guarantee a complete security blanket. In absence of a formal log in, you need to ensure that your ID is extremely unique or rather complicated so that it does not stand a chance of being duplicated with someone else’s ID. While it does gauge the legitimacy of the message, the service does not catch duplicate IDs and in such a case the person having a similar ID can go ahead and access your mail. Also, these throwaway inboxes entertain only 10 messages, where each mail is less than 100k.
Well, these services, with their own set of limitations may not be the best replacement for traditional established email platforms but they can surely help you keep your spam mails at bay.
