Following on from my previous post on disposable email addresses, here is a post on disposable email addresses that come to your REAL email address.

Services such as bugmenot and mailinator are really temporary email address that you check for 5 minutes and do not bother with again. However sometimes you may want to check or receive email for an extended period of time which is where a service such as spammotel.com comes in handy. This service provides you with a random email address such as asda12fasa@spammotel.com that redirects to your predefined real address. It is possible to add prefixes to the email such as SPAM or FWD so you can filter on the incoming emails. A web interface is provided for creating new email addresses (you don’t create one up yourself) and this screen also allows you to put a description for each email set up.

Two added bonuses that come with this system is that if you reply to an incoming email address the email will go to spammotel.com where they scramble your from address so the recipient still does not know your original email (unless you forget to remove it from your signature) . The other benefit is that you can change the destination email address so that if your work email address changes, or you change employers then you have one website to change the email address at and all your subscribed email lists will continue to work.

A screen shot of the interface is below to give you an idea of how it works.

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