free email online with automatic forwarding?

[Bob]

I'd like to set up an advertisement, have people reply to an email address (a vague anonymous one), and then have anything sent to that email address automatically get forwarded to my personal account.  Is there a simple way to do that?  Does something like Yahoo or Hotmail do that? 

[anodibu]

1) https://www.mytrashmail.com/login.aspx?forward=temporaryEmail
I've never tried it so I can't comment how it works.

2) Yes Yahoo allows you to forward incoming messages to a different email address. You can set it up easily in the options of your Yahoo mail page

3) You can also have POP access to your Yahoo mail, i.e. you can configure Outlook (for example) to read your yahoo mail like you do with your regular mail account

[Bob]

I've had Yahoo pull email from school accounts for me before.  I wasn't sure if it could automatically forward everything that comes into it though.  That would be very easy and convenient.  Hopefully it's not one of their pay services.

[Bob]

Nope.  Yahoo won't automatically forward stuff unless you pay for the Mail Plus account.  It will pull mail from a POP account though for free.  I wonder if there's a way around that...

[Bob]

Problem solved.

gmail does it.  Free.  Does automatic forwarding. 

Does anyone know if hotmail does this too?

[Bob]

If hotmail does, it's too much work to find it.  Oi...  Anyone know? 

[shortyshort]

If hotmail does, it's too much work to find it.  Oi...  Anyone know? 

Yes it does.
Open your mailbox in an explorer
Have a look in options, then more options at the bottom

[Bob]

Excellent.  So it does.  Thank you. 

So gmail and hotmail do automatic forwarding.  Hotmail as long as you sign in every 120 days or they delete the account.  With yahoo, you have to pay.

[Bob]

(Bob shakes fist at hotmail.  "Darn you hotmail!")

"You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com."

[shortyshort]

Bob,

Try this site. 

They also have some amusing addresses available 

https://secure.freeola.co.uk/myfreeola/login.php

[anodibu]

Nope.  Yahoo won't automatically forward stuff unless you pay for the Mail Plus account.  It will pull mail from a POP account though for free.  I wonder if there's a way around that...

I've just tried it out, it works on the free account. But my account is on Yahoo UK, maybe Yahoo USA doesn't allow it?

[Bob]

It won't automatically forward every email that comes in.  I had it do the POP thing and pull email from other accounts once. 

I wonder if I can sign up for a UK account. 

[richard black]

Go Gmail. I use it, complete with forwarding, and it's just fine. The convenience of having all my mail on the desktop, thanks to POP3, and also on the Gmail server for when I'm away from home, is the winner. There's not a vast amount of difference between Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo but every time I've checked Gmail just does slightly more stuff than the others.

[chopininov]

I use Bluebottle.com. I'm pretty sure it does automatic forwarding. Sadly their free email service will be ending on June 20th. I'm still deciding wether or not to switch to the subscription.