Whois & Analysis for trashmail.com

TrashMail (TrashMail.net) is a free disposable e-mail address service created in 2002 by Stephan Ferraro, a computer science student at Epitech Paris which belongs now to Ferraro Ltd. The idea was to create temporary email addresses to protect against spam mail.

It mainly forwards emails to a real hidden email address.

Email forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending an email message delivered to one email address on to a possibly different email address.

The term forwarding has no specific technical meaning.

Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.

While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social spam, spam mobile apps, television advertising and file sharing spam.

It is named after Spam, a luncheon meat, by way of a Monty Python sketch about a menu that includes Spam in every dish.

The food is stereotypically disliked/unwanted, so the word came to be transferred by analogy.

An email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered.

A wide variety of formats were used in early email systems, but only a single format is used today, following the standards developed for Internet mail systems since the 1980s.

This article uses the term email address to refer to the addr-spec defined in RFC 5322, not to the address that is commonly used; the difference is that an address may contain a display name, a comment, or both.

Disposable email addressing (DEA) refers to an approach where a unique email address is used for every contact or entity.

The benefit is that if anyone compromises the address or utilises it in connection with email abuse, the address owner can easily cancel (or "dispose" of) it without affecting any of their other contacts.