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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 a form on a [[website]].

(contracted; show full)osing a very-hard-to-guess [[user (computing)|username]] (usernames can be up to 25 characters in length) or using the "cloaked" address for that [[user (computing)|username]] (as explained below). Therefore, Mailinator is not intended and should not be used for sensitive information. Users can delete [[email]] upon reading it or allow the system to auto-delete it after a few hours. Mail cannot be sent from the Mailinator website.

All [[email]] sent to mailinator is automatically deleted after a
 day (sometimes 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@(contracted; show full)
==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

[[Category:Webmail]]
[[Category:Anti-spam]]