Sign up and pick a username. All your mail will be forwarded. For a monthly fee you can choose your own domain, but the basic service is free.

I have a hotmail account. I’ve had it since 1996, so there’s some nostalgia there, but it’s garbage. Sure it looks smoother than it did in 1996, but it’s still the same old weak sauce with the same basic features it had a decade ago.

If you just go to http://www.mailinator.com and type in an address so you can check its mailbox, you’ll notice there’s a limit on the number of characters you can use. I like using this service to vent my frustration with stupid services that require hoop jumping.

Generate a gpg keypair. Check /dev/random to make sure you’re getting some output. If you dont get any standard output when you run this, ctrl-c and you will see 0+1 records in/out. This means there is a problem with your /dev/random device. Here’s the fix…

I had $wgSMTP set up to talk to a remote exchange server, but password resets just weren’t working from the wiki. It turns out all I was missing was the ‘php-pear-Mail package’ (in fedora, for debian or other systems it may be a different package name). I started by checking any logs related to this problem… mail.php missing in UserMailer.php - dependency problem