https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo
A Disposable Mailbox Powered by Pure-Python
https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo
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A Disposable Mailbox Powered by Pure-Python
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo
- Owner: aakash30jan
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2020-09-17T13:03:01.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-10-31T18:23:44.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-15T19:00:01.580Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: antispam, disposable-emails, mailboxes, privacy, temporary-email
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo
- Size: 38.1 KB
- Stars: 33
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 10
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# pydispo
#### A Disposable Mailbox Powered by Pure-Python [](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Wow%2C+check+this+out%21+%23pydispo+is+a+disposable+mailbox+powered+by+pure-%23python.+Avoid+%23spam+and+protect+your+%23privacy+with+pydispo.&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Faakash30jan%2Fpydispo)
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`pydispo` is a pure-pythonic way of managing disposable mailbox that allows users to create several disposable email addresses and receive emails on those. It can be directly used from the command line or imported as a python module for advanced usage. `pydispo` is platform-independent and uses python standard libraries, so if you have python installed you don't need to satisfy any additional dependencies.
Optionally, `pydispo` can fetch attached files and there's also a provision to save emails as HTML. By default, the emails are shown as text, optionally any standard web browser can be used to view the emails. Currently, it uses 1secmail API to receive emails, and soon it would support additional APIs. If you want a bash-like implementation with some dependencies, please check the [tmpmail](https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail) script.
## Installation
### Standalone
Download the `pydispo` standalone script and make it executable
```bash
$ curl -L "https://git.io/pydispo" > pydispo && chmod +x pydispo
```
### PyPI [](https://pepy.tech/project/pydispo)
`pydispo` is also available as a python package from [https://pypi.org/project/pydispo/](https://pypi.org/project/pydispo/).
Download and install it as a system or environment package with pip. It can be then used in a CLI mode or as a python module
```bash
$ pip install pydispo
```
### Source
Alternatively, the latest `pydispo` package source tarball can be downloaded from [here](https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo/archive/v20.9b1.tar.gz) (18.9 kB).
## Usage
```console
Usage: pydispo [-h] [-a] [-r] [-g] [-s] [-b BROWSER] [-e EMAIL] [id]
Options
id Check email with message ID (default shows mailbox)
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a, --attached Download all attached files in the email
-r, --recent Check the recent email
-g, --generate Generate a new email address
-s, --save Save email in an HTML file
-b, --browser Browser to check the email in HTML
-e, --email Check mailbox of a particular email
```
### Examples
Generate a disposable email address
```console
$ pydispo -g
Generated: ma4x8pgolq@1secmail.org
```
Check the mailbox
```console
$ pydispo
Mailbox: ma4x8pgolq@1secmail.org Mails in Inbox: 1
Message ID Sender Subject Date
84784986 yourfriend@mail.com About pydispo 2020-09-16 17:34:13
```
Check a particular email
```console
$ pydispo 84784986
ID: 84784986
To: ma4x8pgolq@1secmail.org
From: yourfriend@mail.com
Date: 2020-09-16 17:34:13
Subject: About pydispo
Attachments: ['pydispo_leaflet.pdf (application/pdf) 0.2 MB ']
--------------------
Check this out
Cheers.
--------------------
```
Check the recent email
```console
$ pydispo -r
```
Check a particular email, get attached files, and save email as HTML
```console
$ pydispo -a -s 84784986
```
Check a particular email in a browser of choice
```console
$ pydispo 84784986 -b elinks
```
Check mailbox of another disposable email
```console
$ pydispo -e g6cqog5utd@1secmail.net
```
Using as a python module
```shell
$ python
```
```python
>>> from pydispo import *
>>> email_addr = generate_email_address(size=10,storeInFile='email_address',mode='w')
Generated: ma4x8pgolq@1secmail.org
>>> check_mailbox(email_addr,showInbox=True,showRecent=False)
Mailbox: ma4x8pgolq@1secmail.org Mails in Inbox: 1
Message ID Sender Subject Date
84784986 yourfriend@mail.com About pydispo 2020-09-16 17:34:13
```
## Issues:
Problems? Please raise an issue at [https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo/issues](https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo/issues).
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## Why disposable emails?
To avoid SPAM. To protect your PRIVACY. Lots of web pages, blogs, forums and services would ask you to register or provide email addresses to read comments, download content, or register account or profile. And a lot of them will use your private email address to send you spam. Disposable emails are perfect for any transaction where you want to improve your online privacy, like when you trade cryptocurrencies. These are also used by developers and testers for several time-saving reasons.
Read More : [How-To Geek](https://www.howtogeek.com/tips/protect-yourself-from-spam-with-free-disposable-email-addresses/) , [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/story/avoid-spam-disposable-email-burner-phone-number/)
## Credits
`pydispo` is a dependency-free, platform-independent replication of Siddharth's [tmpmail](https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail) bash-script and follows a usage pattern similar to it.
## License
This work is licensed under a GNU General Public License Version 3 . [](#pydispo)