mistic.flame

Short Version:

I’ve noticed that several sites block the mailinator.com service, so I set up the dns for misticflame.com to point to mailinator for email. This means that if you send an email to anyaddress@misticflame.com, the email will appear in the inbox for anyaddress@mailinator.com.

Long Version:

If you’ve never heard of mailinator.com, it’s an awesome throwaway email service. When some business asks you to signup with with “a real email” and they send you an activation link to prove the email is real, what you do is give them a mailinator.com address instead of your own. Then you login to that address at mailinator.com (there’s no password) and click the link. After that you use the website without worrying about being spammed.

A few websites have caught on to this and started blocking mailinator.com email addresses. This is where my trick comes into play. I set the DNS for misticflame.com to send all website traffic to my web server, but send all email traffic to mailinator’s server. But the other sites can’t (easily) tell this.

So if you give them a misticflame.com address, you’re actually giving them a mailinator.com address, but they don’t know it ;)