When you make a purchase online, or are providing an email address to someone you don’t quite trust, it makes sense to provide a disposable email address. While it’s certainly not the only service of its kind, MailDrop is a clean, easy to use service that keeps the junk out of your real inbox.
We’ve covered similar services in the past, but MailDrop does things a little differently. For one, your inbox never expires. Most alternatives set a time limit on the inbox, or make you pay to keep it around. Since MailDrop is persistent, you can keep using the address any time you’re worried about giving out your real one.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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When you make a purchase online, or are providing an email address to someone you don’t quite trust, it makes sense to provide a disposable email address. While it’s certainly not the only service of its kind, MailDrop is a clean, easy to use service that keeps the junk out of your real inbox.
