Disposable Email Addresses in Yahoo Mail Protect your Primary Address against Spam

by Simrandeep Singh on March 11, 2009

Address Guard is a powerful feature of Yahoo Mail Plus. It protects your primary email addresses from spam by creating disposable email addresses. You can use the disposable email addresses when you don’t want to share your primary address with everyone.

You will start receiving spam messages automatically if you share your primary email address everywhere on the internet. To get rid of spam messages you can use disposable email address. Give your disposable address when you don’t want to give your primary email address.

How to create disposable email address in Yahoo Mail Plus?

  • Click on the Options on the right side of your Yahoo mail box.

  • A new page will open, Click on Spam and then on Set up a disposable address.

  • Now click on Get Started Now button on the left side. If you want to take the tour of AddressGuard, then you can click on Take a tour of AddressGuard.

  • Now follow the instructions as given there and create a disposable email address.

Now you can use this disposable email address that you created just right now to protect your primary email address from spam.

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stucent March 13, 2009 at 12:15 am

thnxx….

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