Guerrilla Mail was mentioned in a FastCompany article

Guerrilla Mail was mentioned in a FastCompany article – http://www.fastcompany.com/3003061/real-cyberforensics-used-snoop-petraeus-and-you It’s awesome to be mentioned in FastCompany! Although a little inaccurate. Guerrilla Mail has no concept of email account, there’s no registration or login. Guerrilla Mail is not your regular email, not designed for any real communication, but for times when you don’t want to…

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Brace yourself, spam is coming!

For those who celebrated Thanksgiving, we hope you enjoyed your turkey! It’s now coming up to the season where the spam and ham volume increases as businesses fight for your dollar and promote their Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Need to give your email address for a coupon or using a site that you…

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Mozilla Persona – A new way to log in with an email address

Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind FireFox, has recently came up with a new method for registering and logging in to web sites called “persona”. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona The problem? Lets face it, registering in to websites is one of the biggest annoyances. Registration screens these days require you to fill in your email address, your password and…

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‘Extend’ Button Removed

Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Today we removed the ‘Extend’ button. There no need to extend the time any-more! Now it will extend automatically for as long as you stay on the site. Actually, that’s…

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Updates: HTTPS always on

Today we turned on SSL for guerrillamail.com and decided that HTTPS will always be on for all web traffic. This should help increase privacy, and get ready for some other features that may be rolled out in the near future! Although Guerrilla Mail doesn’t need passwords, it still uses sessions, which means that using HTTPS…

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New Feature: Password Manager

Wouldn’t it be great to remember only one password, but use a different password for each site? Most definitely, it would be great! Especially with the increase of high-profile hacking incidents, it’s becoming even more important these days not to re-use a password. That way, if your password is compromised for one site, then it…

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Why your site should not blacklist temporary email service providers

TL/DR (Summary): Temporary email is here to stay, people want to use it to protect their email from spam. Webmasters should not look at an email address to judge reputation. Many people use temporary email to try new products or services, some may be your biggest fans. Full article: First, we need to look at…

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Guerrilla Mail – behind the scenes; Today our open source PHP SMTP server is released!

The technology behind Guerrilla Mail has undergone through a number of iterations in the last few years. In the beginning, Guerrilla Mail was running the Exim mail server, and the emails were fetched using POP. This proved to be inefficient and unreliable, so the system was replaced in favor of piping the emails directly in…

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Proposal for using Bitcoin to implement a postage stamp system for email

Update: Oct 2013. We realize that the suggestion below may have been convoluted. An easier way would be to just to slightly extend the SMTP protocol, where the server may simply respond with a 250 + Bitcoin address and the suggested amount to pay, after the final command once the email is queued. The payment…

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New domain and improved anti-spam weaponry.

Guerrilla Mail replaced guerrillamailblock.com email dowmain with sharklasers.com The new domain name is used for receiving email, ie. your name @ sharklasers.com – the site web site address remains www.guerrillamail.com as always. Now, the exciting announcement is that it’s no longer necessary to pre-visit guerrilla mail to get your temporary email address! When you are…

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