This service allows you to receive messages without having to give out your true email address.
It is mostly useful when a Web site needs an email address to give you access to some information.
By giving out your true email address you would risk it being widely distributed and it would end up clogged up with spam. Addresses managed by this service are meant to receive the spam for you.
Nothing is simpler, you don't need to!
Any address containing letters, digits or the characters '.', '=', '/', '_', '-', '#' and '*' are immediately valid.
When a site requests an address, pick a name at random, add '@pourri.fr' and voilà!
Messages sent to this address can be viewed on this site.
Go to the home page.
There you just need to enter the name you picked and then click on the only button, you will be sent to a page listing the messages currently in this inbox.
The answer to this question is simple: NONE !
This service is offered freely and does not offer any warranty concerning its operations.
That being said, the greatest care is taken to make the service run smoothly, from time to time malfunctions can occur, those are most of the time independent of our will.
In case this happens to you, the best move is to retry a little later.
Same answer as the previous question, NONE!
Or, to moderate the answer, the same as that of the name you picked.
The key to checking an inbox is the name you picked for it, if you chose foo, privacy won't be the same as if you picked 11a3e229084349bc25d97e29393ced1d.
Messages are stored in memory and kept for a maximum of 7 days. As soon as you've viewed a message, we suggest that you delete it, it will immediately become unavailable, even for you.
At the bottom of the message viewing page lies a delete button.
Above this button there is a CAPTCHA, a simple test to check that you are indeed a human being and not a robot.
To delete a message you need to enter correctly the two words you see on the image prior to pressing the delete button.
The CAPTCHA used on this service is from reCAPTCHA which beside protecting us against robots aims at enhancing the quality of digitized books.
There is no way of deleting the content of an inbox at once.
You can receive any message, note that the service does filter the message content only keeping parts in plain text or in HTML (sanitizing it on the fly).
You cannot therefore retrieve any attachments or images through this service.
This link points to content in the Atom format representing the content of the current inbox as a syndication feed.
You can add this link to your favorite feed aggregator, you may therefore see the list of messages in your inbox without having to visit our site.
This is a permalink to an inbox content.
You may use this link instead of going through the home page and entering the inbox name.
Because a single one would be boring.
More seriously, the service being used by numerous people we thought it could act as a gallery for various designers.
When a logo by a designer is displayed on the home page, it links to the Web site of the designer for you to discover it.
That's easy, start by downloading the text on this image.
Make two versions, one in 512x163, the other in 150x48, both in PNG format.
Send both images, your designer name and the URL the link should point to at the following address: pourri DOT fr+logo AT gmail DOT com.
We'll get back to you telling you whether or not your logo will appear on the site.
Of course, this service is not new. Several other similar services exist and we invite you to check them to adopt the one that best fits your needs.
Among them let's mention mailinator, jetable, yopmail, tempomail.
You may also Google for more or check Wikipedia.
Because none of the existing ones pleased us enough.
And because to do so you need to tackle a whole lot of interesting engineering problems.
Advertising.
But overall we wish to work to reduce the impact of spam.
pourri DOT fr AT gmail DOT com
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