Address Protection HOWTO

Address Guard by Yahoo!

This method requires that you have a Yahoo! account and have activated your
web mail
with them. If you don’t want to give Yahoo your true email address, go to the following section first then come back here.

From the main yahoomail page, click on “Mail Options”, then click on “Address Guard”.

I suggest you take the time to go through the “tour”.

First of all, you will need to create a “base name”. This forms (as you would expect) the “base” of your
disposable email addresses. Make it different to your Yahoo! ID.

Then you can create a disposable email address as you want one, just follow the prompts. The addresses take the form of:


BASENAME-AFFIX@yahoo.com


where BASENAME is your base name and AFFIX is whatever characters you want
(make it something related to what you are using it for so that you can recognise it later!)

A few points:

• It is possible to use the addresses so created to send mail from (using Yahoo mail) if you
  set them up to allow that.
• It is possible to filter the email so that all the messages to the DEA go to a certain folder
  (again, this is set up when you first create the address, but you can go back and edit these settings
  later.
• If you start getting spam to that address, simply delete the address (It’s disposable, remember!) And as an
  added bonus, you also know who is responsible for selling your address (you only gave this address out
  to one person/organisation right?)

The disadvantage to this system is that each disposable email address must be set up manually first.
To counter that problem, see the next section!