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Mailinator is a free disposable email address service created in 2003 by Paul Tyma. The idea is to let a user invent a new email address on-the-fly, whenever needed, for instance, while filling in a form on a Web site. Mailinator will accept mail for any email address addressed to any domain that arrives at the Mailinator servers, and allows anyone to read it. There is no need to register for an account or authenticate via a password. It is intended to provide users with an anonymous and temporary email address to help reduce Inbox spam. ==Description== Arriving email with a specific recipient name "creates" accounts at Mailinator. It is not required that an account or mailbox with the recipient's name be created beforehand. To check received mail, a user visits the Mailinator site and enters the recipient name. There are no passwords and there is no way to keep others from seeing the messages, except by choosing a very-hard-to-guess username (usernames can be up to 25 characters in length) or using the "cloaked" address for that username, as explained below. Therefore, Mailinator is not intended and should not be used for sensitive information. Users can delete messages upon reading them or allow the system to auto-delete them after a few hours. Mail cannot be sent from the Mailinator site. All email sent to Mailinator is automatically deleted after a day, or sooner, whether or not the user reads it. Mailinator has introduced a "cloaking" feature in which every recipient name has a cloaked identifier starting with "M8R-" and a string of characters. Mail may be sent to either the original recipient name or the cloaked name. Mail will only go to the mailbox for the original recipient name, and the cloaked address will always have an empty mailbox. For example, the recipient name ''wikipedia'' ("wikipedia@mailinator.com") will also have the cloaked address ''M8R-as16dx'' ("M8R-as16dx@mailinator.com"). Mail sent to the cloaked address ''M8R-as16dx'' will go to the destination mailbox ''wikipedia'', while the ''M8R-as16dx'' mailbox will always be empty. There is no way to translate the cloaked address into the destination address. Emails may be viewed in unmodified "text view" mode. Mailboxes may also be accessed directly via the URL, as in 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mailinator」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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