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'''Mailinator''' is a free [[disposable e-mail address]] service created in 2003 by [[Paul Tyma]]. The idea is to let a user create a new [[e-mail address]] on the fly, whenever needed, for instance while filling a form on a [[website]].

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E-mails may be viewed in unmodified "text view" mode. Mailboxes may also be accessed directly via the [[Uniform resource locator|URL]] as in http://MailboxName.mailinator.com.

==Potential problems==
A few [[website]]s might block the sending of [[e-mail]] to the Mailinator domain, or services similar to it, but Mailinator provides alternate domains which work around this ban in most cases. In addition, a domain owner can set up the
ir [[MX record]]s to point to the Mailinator server, in effect adding an unlimited number of domains that Mailinator will receive messages for. This is expressly allowed by Mailinator.<ref name=OPM />

A significant difference of Mailinator compared to regular [[message transfer agent|e-mail service]]s is that received messages are kept for only a few hours. As new messages arrive, the older messages are deleted to make room for them, resulting in messages being available for a variable amount of time.
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==External links==
*[http://www.mailinator.com Mailinator] - Mailinator homepage
*[http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2006/12/architecture-of-mailinator.html Paul Tyma's blog] - Description of the Mailinator architecture by its founder, Paul Tyma
*[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E6DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63 New York Times Technology] - Review of Mailinator

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