Potential Problems
Issues may arise in the situations where spamgourmet ignores email at expiration of the address without comment. Also, the service should not be used for important correspondence. The lack of errors sent back to senders for undelivered messages is a significant departure from what is normally expected of the email infrastructure.
A similar error occurs when a user inadvertently provides an address which is non-compliant with the spamgourmet account. Examples include
- missing username
- missing "watchword" (name permitted by the user)
- spamgourmet email address exceeding number of permitted characters (20 per field)
Due to the versatility of spamgourmet's email configurations, it is helpful for the user to send a test message (to the user's account) before giving it out, at least until the user is familiar with spamgourmet's address configurations.
The user can set a number of permitted emails to a particular address. If the number of emails at a specific spamgourmet address exceeds the maximum number set by the user, the email will be lost. The maximum number can be increased, but the user must keep the spamgourmet address list updated in order to avoid email being lost.
The user can set a trusted sender ("exclusive sender") who can send unlimited emails to any of the user's SpamGourmet addresses.
Since the service has over time achieved some notoriety, spamgourmet addresses are not accepted by some Internet services, normally those which finance themselves by the sales of email addresses. In addition numerous Internet forums with registration obligations prevent the use of spamgourmet addresses, in order to prevent the registration of fake accounts. As with other disposable email services, spamgourmet provides alternative domains for use by its users, some 25 are published, and others unpublished.
Facebook does not accept some or all of spamgourmet addresses and also doesn't allow linking to the spamgourmet website. Spamgourmet did have a Facebook page at one time, however it was removed by spamgourmet due to concerns over Facebook's use of user's private information, rejection of spamgourmet's addresses and not allowing linking to the spamgourmet sites.
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