Temporary electronic mail addresses

摘要

Techniques are provided for generating and managing temporary email addresses. A requestor having a requestor email address makes a request to receive a temporary email address. The temporary email address is generated and mapped to the requestor email address. Messages received that are associated with the temporary email address are mapped to the requestor email address and forwarded to the requestor. The temporary email address expires when an expiring event is detected.

主权项

1. A method for generating a temporary electronic mail address implemented in a computer-readable medium and to process on a computer for performing the method, comprising:
receiving a request for the temporary email address from a requestor having a requestor email address, the request is received from an email client that the requestor uses to send and receive email messages, and the requestor makes the request via interactions with the email client; generating the temporary email address, wherein generating further includes evaluating rules the requestor defines to produce the temporary email address, the requestor interacts with the email client to also define when the temporary email address is to expire based on a specific calendar date for the temporary email address to expire, and wherein generating further includes mapping a first domain for the temporary email address to a second and different domain based on a selection made by the requestor from a list of available domains; mapping the temporary email address to the requestor email address; and transmitting the temporary email address to the requestor via the email client of the requestor for the requestor to use to send emails over the Internet using the temporary email address and to receive emails over the Internet directed to the temporary email address and received at the requestor email address, the emails received and directed to the temporary email address having distinguishing features applied to metadata received with those emails that permit an email client for the requestor to present the distinguishing features with those emails within the email client and obtaining by the requestor information from a service with the temporary email address.