---
title: "A better disposable email"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/1/a-better-disposable-email.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/1/a-better-disposable-email.html"
published: "2003-09-01T21:00:00"
updated: "2003-09-01T21:00:00"
tags: ["Cool Tools", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "“ I am Jack's single serve email address .” [via HDConsultants ] This disposable email is even better than mailinator , because it actually forwards email to your real address, but you get to say when the fake email…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# A better disposable email

By Roy Osherove September 1, 2003 In [Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 1, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

“_I am Jack's_ [_single serve email address_](http://jetable.org/)_.”_

\[via [HDConsultants](http://hdconsultants.us/posts/156.aspx)\]

This disposable email is even better than [mailinator](http://www.mailinator.com/), because it actually forwards email to your **real** address, but you get to say when the fake email address destroys itself - anywhere from 4 to 48 hours from now.

tre'-cool! (was that French?)

## More in Cool Tools

[All posts in Cool Tools](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-tools)

- Sep 3, 2003

    ### [Cool utility of the day: Code Snippet Compiler](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/3/cool-utility-of-the-day-code-snippet-compiler.html)

- Sep 2, 2003

    ### [The Final Release of NUnit V2.1 is now available](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/2/the-final-release-of-nunit-v21-is-now-available.html)

- Aug 25, 2003

    ### [NUnit v2.1 RC1 released](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/25/nunit-v21-rc1-released.html)

- Aug 17, 2003

    ### [CodeSmart.Net](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/17/codesmartnet.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/