How to stop email spam (and work out who leaked your address)
Spam is a consequence of how your address has been shared. Here is how to cut the volume you already receive, and how to stop the next wave before it starts.
Guides
Practical writing on disposable addresses, spam, and keeping your real inbox out of other people's databases.
Disposable email or an email alias? Choosing the right one
Disposable addresses and forwarding aliases solve overlapping problems in different ways. A clear comparison of what each is good at, and when each one fails you.
Is temporary email safe? What it protects, and what it does not
Disposable email is genuinely useful, but it is not anonymity and it is not security. A straight account of the real risks and the cases where you should not use it.
Using temporary email addresses to test a signup flow
A practical guide for developers and QA: testing registration, verification and transactional mail with disposable addresses, and knowing when to use a real mail sandbox instead.
Why some sites reject disposable email addresses
Why a signup form rejects a temporary address, how the blocklists behind it actually work, and the legitimate options when you hit one.