In cases where you come across site that requires you to login first to be able to view the content of an article or a research but you don´t want to join the site and leave your email address behind, Pookmail.com will come in very handy.

PookMail.com is a disposable email account system that lasts for 24 hours. You can use PookMail.com to avoid giving your personal email address to suspicious websites or for simple registration purposes. 

The concept is known as "disposable email" or one use email adresses. You have to register at the site, but use a email address from a disposable email service (that looks like - emailname@pookmail.com) . The validation email is send to the disposable email address, you read it there, click on the validation link and your account is active and you can reach the page with the information you needed.

Joining Pookmail.com is easy:

1.  Instead of giving your real email address to every website on the web, just make up an imaginary name for pookmail.com.

2.  Wait for your email to arrive.

3.  Login to PookMail.com by typing your imaginary email name into the login form, and click GO.

4.  After 24 hours, the email associated with your login name will be cleaned from the system.

You should not be using Pookmail or any disposable email service if you want to use your account for personal use, like signing up in a forum. Everyone is able to read emails that are sent to the email address you specified, that means, everyone is able to request a new password and read the email that contains it. You should make sure that either you can hide your email from everyone except maybe administrators or signup with a real email.

Have Fun!

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