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Keep Your Email Address Private and Secure While Still Able To Use It

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Aug
16
2008

Let’s say I have a really cool and hard to get email address username such as raymond@hotmail.com or raymond@gmail.com. I would be so proud but then I dare not simply use it to sign up on any forms or let everyone know to prevent spam or even someone hacking it. When a Hotmail or Gmail email account is hacked, it is nearly impossible to get it back after the hacker changed the secret question and answer or the alternative email address. If you send an email to Hotmail support, they will only reply you with a ready written email template that ask you to try recovering your account through the secret question and answer or just sign up a new email account.

To solve this problem, a lot of people including me have more than 1 email account. I have a Hotmail which only my close friends and family knows about it, a Gmail for everyone else to contact me and finally, my domain email address for my customers.

Another solution which I recently discovered is we can have only 1 email address with multiple email addresses. How cool is that?


akapost is a simple and easy way to protect your email identity from being exposed on the Internet. With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private. akapost works with any email client or device such as computer, cell phone, or handheld, etc. No software download or installation is required. Simply sign up and register your email address, it’s ready to go. Protecting email identity has never been so easy – and yet it’s FREE!

Protect your email with akapost

The below example scenario would help you understand akapost’s concept better:

  • 1. Brian would like to send an e-mail from his company e-mail account to Lisa. But he doesn’t want Lisa to know his actual e-mail address.
  • 2. Brian signs up with akapost, creates an akapost e-mail address “JediMaster@akapost.com”, and associates it with his actual e-mail address “Brian.Jones@company.com”.
  • 3. Next Brian appends the extension “.akapost.com” to Lisa’s e-mail address and sends a message to this customized e-mail address “LisaW82@yahoo.com.akapost.com“. The message is then redirected to akapost.
  • 4. akapost substitutes Brian’s e-mail address with Brian’s akapost e-mail address, strips all personal information in message headers ties to Brian’s actual e-mail account, and delivers the message to Lisa.
  • 5. When Lisa receives Brian’s message, she doesn’t know Brian’s actual e-mail address because the original sender address has been replaced with Brian’s akapost e-mail address. To Lisa the message seems to be sent directly from Brian’s akapost e-mail address. When Lisa replies this message, the replied message is sent to Brian’s akapost e-mail address “JediMaster@akapost.com”.
  • 6. akapost receives Lisa’s replied message and forwards it to Brian’s actual e-mail address “Brian.Jones@companycom”.
  • akapost currently offers three types of services: akapost Basic, akapost Plus and akapost Premium. akapost Basic is completely free, which allows you to create one akapost email address and protect one your actual email adddress. akapost Plus cost $22.95 per year and you can create up to 5 akapost email addresses and protect up to 10 registered email addresses. As for akapost Premium, it cost $9.95/month. You can create up to 25 akapost email addresses and protect up to 50 registered email addresses. You can also create customized email addresses (for example, sales@yourcompany.com) with an additional fee.

    [ Sign Up for a FREE akapost Account ]


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    • Mark

      Perfect – just what I need..!!

      Great work Raymond..!!

    • -F-R-K

      Thanks Raymond ! This was exactly what I was looking for right now at this time. I need to get myself cleaned from google… a jell of a job.

    • Ishaan

      Hey thx for this tip really usefull….

    • John

      Can’t the recipient just take your akapost email address and make it public. Meaning, anyone knowing the akapost email address can send anything to you and spam your box anyways?

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Yes they can but I can always change my akapost email login…

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    • praveen

      Thanks for the info..

    • Dipin

      we can make temperory emails and forward it to the original account

    • Lazar

      very useful
      thanks

    • riyaz

      hey raymond, check this site …http://www.spambox.us/ … very useful at times, say while joining forums etc … ur actual email id is not exposed …

    • guss it!

      ^ Lol, pay for it :)

    • X

      If I were to get your akapost address, the 1st thing I’d do would be to change the password.

    • madforit

      If your a firefox user-try gishpuppy,its in the addons section.
      Does exactly the same and u can have as many different
      emails,just right click and gishit,i currently have 500+ that
      i use regulary.

    • Ahmad Maher

      thanks for the info

    • http://www.releaselive.com Ibrahim Rabbani

      yet another great tip raymond, you don\’t let people down! keep them coming.

    • John Minkis

      I think a lot of people misunderstood akapost. It’s NOT an anti-spam solution (even it may help reduce spam). It’s for email identity protection. akapost provides a realy simple way to do it. Yes, you can get same result by using a secondary mailbox account. But you have to switch them back and forth when you need to send emails. akapost allows you to send and receive emails from the same mailbox but presents different email identities (not just email address).

      There are tons of free disposal email providers on the Internet. If you google it you will know. Akapost works differently than all of them. It masks sender’s email address on the fly and allows people to SEND their emails without revealing their email identities

      Also people should not use it to send emails to your friends. Why do you need to hide your email address from your friends? akapost should be used occasionally when you want to contact with someone but you don’t really trust him/her or you don’t want to reveal your email identity to the recipients.

    • http://bernard.novahost.org bernard adytia darmadi

      Great info
      I’ll Try it

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      is like bigfoot.com but for free. Bigfoot in the past was free but no more now.

    • Surya L

      Great Find.Thanks Raymond..

    • Nik

      How is this actually work? I always get return message from Gmail, but do all is right..

    • Duke, the hacker

      Try Yahoo Address Guard feature. it works as the same and give you the a disposable email-address totally different from your main account.
      For more details visit this link:

      http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/addressguard/

      Better than AKApost and its free and you can create upto 100 temp ids

    • Luker Martin

      Yahoo Address Guard is NOT free. It’s part of Yahoo Mail Plus. You have to pay for it. And you can’t use it if you are a Gmail user. Akapost doesn’t have those restrictions. You may use it to protect ANY email addresses.

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