A minor release to 10MinuteMail just went out. It adds a few languages and language cleanups, bringing us up to 26 supported languages!!! Thanks to all those who have volunteered their time!

There's also a new feature to grab a new e-mail address at any time. Mail sent to your old address(es) will still show up in your inbox page (as long as your session is still active). Check it out. That comes as a special request. If you have a feature request, e-mail me.

Enjoy!

Devon

I just launched an updated version of 10MinuteMail.com. I gave it a new look and feel. Hopefully people like it. I've also added a neat link which will copy the e-mail address into your clip-board for you, so you don't have to select and copy yourself. It uses a combination of javascript and Flash and seems to work on every browser. And I swapped in a new e-mail domain of fishfuse.com as the old domain was getting an amazing amount of spam daily (around 250k).

Behind the scenes I've upgraded to Seam 2.0beta, which went smoothly enough, once I remembered that I'd modified the build.xml in some important ways, and the initial issues weren't releated to the Seam upgrade, but to the build not setting a few custom flags. Easily solved.

Tell me what you think of the new site, and give me feedback or suggestions for new features.

Thanks!

Devon

When I launched 10minutemail.com, tons of forum admins decried the idea. They screamed that it would let spammers on to their forums, and that they wouldn't sell e-mail lists to spammers, etc...

A month goes by, and let's see what we have. My server used to get around 200-300 e-mail a day. In the past week it averaged 20,000-30,000 e-mail a day. Virtually all of those were to old (expired) 10minutemail.com accounts. Presumably virtually all spam. 30,000 a day!?

This proves that the average person simply CAN'T trust a random site or forum with their real e-mail address. Are there some forums/sites that are trustworthy? Sure! Does the average net user have any ability to tell with certainty if a given site or forum will sell their e-mail address or spam them direction? Unfortunately not.

For me at least, this reiterates the usefulness of the service.

In order to save my server from the crushing spam, I've swapped out the e-mail domain to fificorp.com, and will continue to swap out the e-mail domain on a regular basis. This will serve two purposes. One, it will save my server from dying under the spam. Two, it will keep admins who block registrations by domain on their toes at least once a month.

Note: Fifi is my pet iguana.

It's filtered down a few pages off the front, but hey, front page of digg.com! Wow! Totally grassroots in about 4 hours. Now it's on all kinds of little blogs and tech forums and other odd places. Over 100k hits in the last 18 hours. It performs very well. There's very little cpu hit at all. Go SEAM!

Anyhow, I'm proud. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Digg.com:
"A disposible email service...You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes."

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My first web application built using Seam is now live. It is called 10MinuteMail and you can see it at www.10MinuteMail.com.

It gives you a temporary e-mail address, and lets you receive and reply to e-mail sent to that address. The e-mail address expires in 10 minutes (or more, you can extend it as you need more time). Basically I created to learn Seam, and to provide an easy way to avoid giving your real e-mail address to websites which require an e-mail from you to sign-up. Think of it as spam avoidance.