As a software tester, an episode such as the one below must be more than familiar to you and, let’s be honest, it has the potential of making the top ten of the most annoying things in our daily work routine:

• Pain in the neck: “Hey, I need more email addresses for testing, I just burnt all my own.”
• You: “Well, just use a fake one.”
• P: “Nah, I can’t, I need the activation emails.”
• Y: “Well, then, there are good disposable mailers out there.”
• P: “Very clever, but they aren’t protected by authentication and I signed an NDA for that project.”
• Y: “Here, use this one.”
• P: “But it wants to have a real email to sign me up and I don’t really feel like giving my real email away.”
• Y: “$§5$!51z1hhsks!”

Granted, it’s a matter of course that committed testers have many email addresses but what’s the use of them when you’re always limited to a certain number, when you can’t quickly change them, or deactivate them when an email service got hold of them?
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