Hotmail launches disposable emails: each user will have the possibility to create a primary mailbox and four secondary ones.
Microsoft announces a new feature in the Hotmail email service: “disposable” email inboxes.
A very convenient solution for signing up for online sites and services, thus avoiding the use of your main mailbox, which you want to keep clean from spam incursions.
In this way, you can activate a primary address, also having the option to use four other addresses that we can indeed define as “disposable.” Should one of these secondary addresses become a victim of unwanted emails and spam, you can simply deactivate it, without ever losing full functionality of the primary address or the remaining similar aliases.
The advantage of this new Hotmail functionality is evident: with a single login (and therefore a single registration), you can monitor all available email addresses, viewing the primary email as your personal “home,” while emails arriving from the secondary addresses will be sent to a dedicated folder.
One might object that something similar has existed for a long time: using, for example, the “+” sign in the name before the “@” symbol, it is possible to leverage the inbox functionality just the same. However, in this case, the real address will still be revealed (it won’t be difficult to trace it by simply removing the “+”), whereas disposable Hotmail inboxes have an edge in this regard: it is actually possible to completely change what is readable before the “@” symbol, effectively negating the possibility of tracing back to the real, primary address.
Microsoft does not rule out the possibility of increasing the limit of disposable emails to 15, but in this first phase, a total of 5 emails will be available: one primary and four disposable ones.
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