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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Guerrilla Mail gets an API

App developers: Did you know that Guerrilla Mail has an API? Here is the doc – http://www.guerrillamail.com/GuerrillaMailAPI.html What can the API be used for? It can be used to create a new version of the site for a different platform / programming language. For example, Android, iPhone / iPad App, Facebook App, or to create…

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New Features: Display Images

Guerrilla Mail blocks all remote images on emails by default, because images are often used as beacons to track you. Today we have added a new feature, so that when an email with images is displayed, a ‘display images’ link will be shown above the email… Click on this link and the images will be…

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New User Interface Launched

Today, GuerrillaMail is pleased to announce a new version of our website! The old Guerrilla Mail web-app has been scrapped and replaced by a shiny new user interface. The new Guerrilla Mail is easier, faster and more refined – everything was re-built from the ground up. The new site uses some of the latest features…

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Server Upgrade

Guerrilla Mail will be undergoing a server upgrade on the weekend (4th Dec to 5th Dec). We will be shifting the site to a new server, there may be some service disruptions during these dates. We apologize for any inconvenience, we will try to minimize the disruptions as much as possible.

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GuerrillaMail.com T-shirt

Get a Guerrilla Mail Tee and help support Guerrilla Mail. Great as a Christmas gift or general wear for yourself. T-Shirts are available form here http://cafepress.com/guerrillamail Light Design About Cafe Press CafePress is the ultimate source for holiday gift ideas for Thanksgiving aprons, Christmas coffee mugs and even Valentine   Update:  New crowd funded t-shirt…

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Latest Improvements to Guerrilla Mail

We have made the following improvements to Guerrilla Mail in the last few days – You can now get a Guerrilla Mail address without the need to to visit Guerrilla Mail first! When you are on a form which requires an email address, simply think of a random email address for @guerrillamailblock.com, use it, then…

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