Give your email address, and you may be sharing much more than that

Its no surprise that once you give your email address to someone, it may be shared, sold and re-sold, added to so called “opt-in” marketing lists, burring your inbox with a mountain of spam in the future. However, it’s worse than that! By giving your email address to someone, you disclose much more than that….

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New Server – 4x increase in capacity; Happy New Year!

Guerrilla Mail has increased capacity to 4x with the installation of a new server! One of the greatest features of this server is an SSD drive. Guerrilla Mail’s software stack has been evolving too. Incoming emails are now stored in memory using Redis instead of going to disk – removing the biggest bottleneck. A Memcached…

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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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Testing now: Sending – our most requested feature!

Today we are rolled out a beta version of the most requested feature: ability to Compose, Forward and Reply emails. We also added the ability to transfer files! Right now, the maximum is 150MB, but this will change in the future as we improve our system. We’re thinking that in the future, Guerrilla Mail may…

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New Feature: Alias Address

Guerrilla Mail doesn’t require registration or login – you simply visit the site and a new email address is minted right before your eyes, no clicking or typing necessary. That’s great, however, since there’s no password, you’ve probably already assumed that anyone who knows your Inbox ID may have access to your email. That’s satisfactory…

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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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