Temporary email addresses

[totherme]

ISPs are now keeping records of everyone you email (if you live in the EU)Not the contents of the mail yet - so perhaps it's not quite time to break out the PGP ubiquitously (and it's not a lot of use if you only use it for suspicious things, so it's pretty well got to be all or nothing). But what if you wanted to make your email flist just a

Comments

[johnckirk]

Hmm, I think we may need a bit more technical detail on this one. For instance, suppose that I send email to someone using my GMail account: how will my ISP know about that? Are Google affected by this legislation, if their servers are outside the EU? So, you may not need to use throwaway webmail accounts, if your main account is permanently based elsewhere.

Personally, I run my own mailserver at home, so I connect directly to the mailservers at other organisations (rather than using my ISP's mailserver). Are they expected to log all traffic on port 25?

I'm guessing that the ISPs just need to keep a copy of their own mailserver logs, so this won't affect me at all.

[elvum]

What's the legal definition of email? :-)

[anonymous]

Maybe you want mailinator.com?