Mailinator is one of those great forever services which I seriously hope will never disappear, it has saved me from so much “newsletters” and other things I don’t want in my mailbox.
Sadly it for some reason people think it’s a good idea to block it sometimes.
Which makes absolutely no sense to me. I mean, I am clearly indicating that I do not want email from you. If you force me to give my own email, and send me emails (which we know you will) I will put them into spam.
I am quite certain Google uses that as a signal to start feeding your newsletter into spam for the users who might actually want it.
Either way, that aside.
Your own mailinator domain
This seems to work with most services which tries to prevent mailinator.com and the other known mailinator domains from being used.
You will need your own domain and be somewhat comfortable with editing the DNS of it for this to work. If you are, there is no risk with doing this. If you do not have your own domain, you can get a free subdomain at afraid.org.
You can do this two different ways, either create a domain which is a CNAME for mail.mailinator.com, this is more easily detected if they are motivated.
The other way is to do the following
- create a
Arecord pointing to the same destination asmail.mailinator.com(you have to look it up, it ends at.11.30) , for examplenospam.your.domain - then create a
MXrecord likenospam.your.domain 10:nospam.your.domain.
Success!
Mailinator does not seem to mind doing this, at least in 2008 https://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mailinator.html
Using the A method hides it, but sometimes it still does not work. I assume some people have blacklisted the [redacted].11.30 IP which mailinator uses as MX. That IP has been the same for as long as I’ve used them and probably longer.
Enjoy.