Email-Id’s for testing purpose
Have you ever come across a situation where you have to test an application having features that require using email-id? Let’s say an user registration module that requires unique email id. One is you could use your personal email id, but that is one time and then you cannot use the same id. Another option would be to create different email-ids with one of the free service providers like gMail or Yahoo! mail. Think about the server space that would be wasted for creating these email ids used for temporary purpose.
Guerilla Mail would be handy in such a situation. It provides temporary email ids which require no registration and has an expiry time of 15 minutes. You can read and reply to the e-mails using the Guerilla Mail. In case you require more time in order to complete the task then, a link is provided which when clicked resets the timer.
Thanks to my friend Sowmya Ambiti who pointed me to this site.
Yeskumar Said,
April 10, 2007 @ 1:42 pm
You can use “+” symbol to distinquish email ids.
The following are refering same email id bgate@yourxyzdomain.com and will reach the same inbox:
bgates+one@yourxyzdomain.com,
bgates+two@yourxyzdomain.com.
bgates+three@yourxyzdomain.com,
bgate+anything@yourxyzdomain.com, etc.,
Sowmya Said,
April 10, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
That was helpful. Thanks!
Some of our applications have validation rule for Email address field not to accept the “+” character. In such cases whatever you said may not work and that could be a case where Guerilla Mail will be helpful.
Sowmya.
Avatar Singh Said,
April 11, 2007 @ 7:31 am
I use www.mintemail.com as the temporary email address. It automatically copies the email to your clipboard. Also, you don’t need to refresh the page as the webpage title is updated when new email is received.