mailcatcher VS burner-email-providers

Compare mailcatcher vs burner-email-providers and see what are their differences.

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mailcatcher

Posts with mentions or reviews of mailcatcher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-27.
  • I put my whole life into a single database
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2022
    If you own the server, it might be easier to set up a little smtp client. Or to be more security conscious, a incoming only smtp client like https://github.com/0xERR0R/mailcatcher/ and collapse that dataflow. But pubsub has a monstrous free tier anyway and I also wanted to keep a copy of the emails on gmail which is easier to search
  • An Ode to Apples Hide My Email
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2022
    There are lots of ways to do this. Postfix is nice but a little heavy. The simplest and most functional way I've found is https://github.com/0xERR0R/mailcatcher since all it does is forward the emails. You can even use a throwaway gmail SMTP so it doesn't get send to spam

    Easy to set up on a rpi/cheap VPS, as long as you have a hostname. And while you're there, look for a short domain name so it's fast to type (on credit card kiosks). You can get cheap short non-standard TLD's like .li. I got a 3 character domain for $5 a year, as short as bit.ly, but just for me

  • is here a simple forwarding email service?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Sep 2021
    I use selhosted https://github.com/0xERR0R/mailcatcher with ddns domain on my raspberry pi
  • Self hosted alternative to Apple "hide my email" service
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Jul 2021
  • Fresh rss but for emails?
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Feb 2021
    Maybe https://github.com/0xERR0R/mailcatcher

burner-email-providers

Posts with mentions or reviews of burner-email-providers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-10.
  • Proton domains blocked by anti disposable filter :(
    1 project | /r/ProtonMail | 7 Dec 2023
    1 project | /r/ProtonMail | 7 Dec 2023
  • An Ode to Apples Hide My Email
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Apr 2022
    For an example of that, see here: https://github.com/wesbos/burner-email-providers/pull/339

    But yes, definitely a concern that is constantly on our radar.

  • Mozilla's Firefox Relay to be added to disposable-email-domains blacklist
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 16 Jan 2022
  • Firefox Relay
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2021
    We're actively reaching out to maintainers of such lists (see e.g. [1]) to get us removed, and take a number of measures to make that more palatable (see also [1]). And of course Relay is a bit different from services like Mailinator, where email addresses are usually actually single-use: Relay addresses remain active until their owner actively disables them. Possibly in the future it might also be possible to bring your own domain, but I don't think we have any concrete plans for that that we can share.

    That said, no solution is perfect, and I expect that there will likely always be situations where you will be forced to fall back to a regular email address.

    [1] https://github.com/wesbos/burner-email-providers/pull/339

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mailcatcher and burner-email-providers you can also consider the following projects:

docker-thunderbird

AnonAddy - Anonymous email forwarding

ViMbAdmin - Virtual Mailbox Administration

disposable-email-domains - a list of disposable and temporary email address domains

twtxt - Decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.

fx-private-relay - Keep your email safe from hackers and trackers. Make an email alias with 1 click, and keep your address to yourself.

smtprelay - Simple Golang SMTP relay/proxy server

Firefox Send

twtxt.net - 📕 twtxt is a Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised microBlogging platform. No ads, no tracking, your content, your data!

send - Simple, private file sharing.

SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app