When comparing SpamGourmet vs 33Mail, the Slant community recommends SpamGourmet for most people. In the question“What are the best temporary email address services?” SpamGourmet is ranked 7th while 33Mail is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose SpamGourmet is:
If you log in to your account, you can adjust the count or disable or reactivate an address at any time.
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Pros
Pro Adjust the settings on any of your addresses
If you log in to your account, you can adjust the count or disable or reactivate an address at any time.
Pro Mail address expires by the count, not by time
SpamGourmet works by having a protected account and spam accounts that can be created on the fly just by adding something in front of the protected account's address. From here it's possible to choose which spam accounts get funnelled into the protected account.
You can set an account-default number of emails to get through, or you can set a number as part of the address creation. You can use the web admin to manage refreshing the count or granting permanent exemption or termination.
Pro Multiple domains available
If @spamgourmet is too obnoxious, you have other domains to choose from. You can even use it for personal contacts.
Pro Trusted senders can bypass the count
This way you can make a temporary address permanent if you want to keep it.
Pro Send mail too
You can reply directly to an email received from a temporary address to make their server send from that address. You can even send the first message using a special address.
Pro Email address masking
When replying one's email address is not revealed.
Pro Supports subaddressing
Protected email address may contain a plus, or other Email Standard subaddressing formating.
Pro Anonymous replies
You can reply to emails via 33mail without disclosing your real email address.
Pro Permanent email aliases
Email aliases aren't temporary, but they can be blocked.
Pro It's been around a while so it ain't going anywhere
33Mail started in 2011 and has been growing steadily since then, forwarding over 1m emails per month as of 2018.
Pro Your own email domain
With 33Mail you get your own domain, like dogbert.33mail.com - and you can create as many aliases as you want under this, such as slant@dogbert.33mail.com. That's with the free plan, but with the paid plan you can use your own domain name.
Cons
Con Requires an account
Con Some merchants will not allow use of @spamgourmet.com
Some merchants do not allow one to use a @spamgourmet.com address.
Con Carbon copy can't work
If your contacts have different addresses for you, you can't CC them.
Con Attachment size limit
Modern email services can often handle bigger than standard attachments. The SpamGourmet server limits attachment sizes more strictly to conserve resources, so you can't get them.
Con Bad website design
Con Reply addresses can leak
The reply feature is convenient, but if you're not careful, your email client might automatically include the special reply address in the threading quotation. This means anyone who gets it can reply in your name to that address.
Con Terrible customer service, no way to stop charges if you sign up for premium
After 1 year they auto-charged for the 2nd year. There is NOWHERE on their site to remove your credit card info. You can write to them them in advance several times to please stop your premium service, but they will charge you anyway. Terrible customer service.
