Long time back I used to use a spam email whenever I needed one. Then services started declining emails from those services, so I made a temp Gmail I used for everything. But I’m not comfortable with how much I use that.
Outlook allows an email address to be a day or so in service before they ask you for your personal info.
The absolute best way costs a small amount of money.
First get a hosting plan. DreamHost has the “Shared Unlimited” plan for $13/mo. (Cheaper the first year, and cheaper if you pay for 1yr. or 3yrs.).
Next get a domain name. I recommend NameCheap. This costs like $14/yr. Most (but not all) domains have free anonymized registration.
You can then either use the mailbox space on your hosting or create forwarders to something like FastMail or Proton. Just make a new [email protected] address each time you need one. Blackhole it if it gets too much spam.
And if that’s too many steps, Fastmail already has the ability to create masked emails!
The hosting provider is unnecessary.
You can point the domain to proton mail or whatever email service you like. Then you can configure a wildcard so that all email sent to any address at that domain can go to a central email.
Then you can filter it and use rules to move or delete automatically. Minimal setup required, and nothing to do to “create” a new email address.
Yeah, you can do it that way. I mentioned the hosting in the case that they’d like to use mailboxes created on the hosting account rather than FastMail/Proton/etc.
I often use Guerrilla Mail and mail.tm
Works pretty well
Spamgourmet
mailinator.com was one of the originals, still seems to be working
Here’s another just in case, maildrop.cc
I just created a junk Gmail account that I use for everything that I don’t care about and never login into. Why does it matter “how much you use it”?
I use Firefox Relay, the premium version is 12€/year and it’s easy to set up and use.
They have plans to offer phone number protection too in the future, I’m on the waitlist.
I use StartMail, useful for both one-time emails and aliased emails that stick around.
