[Cryptography] mailinator?

[Jerry Leichter]

On Oct 25, 2013, at 5:35 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
> Anyone thought of using mailinator?
I've used it ... but what purposes do you have in mind?  If you're thinking of using it as a quick way to quickly implement the "encrypt and broadcast to everyone" anonymous mail system ... it would quickly collapse.  The description of mailinator says that it's purely an in-memory system, with limited capacity.  For its intended usage - mail addresses where you just need something that will receive mail, you never intend to read it; or where there is one message - e.g., a confirmation of sign-up that you will grab and respond to within minutes, and then never care about again - that's fine.  When memory fills, older messages are discarded - at this point, after "a few hours".  There are already protections against too much crud being received - attachments are discarded, there's a size limit.

Did you have something else in mind?
                                                        -- Jerry

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