HT201320: Set up an email account on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Learn about Set up an email account on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Mikequ
Level 1 (0 points)

Q: How to set up disposible email accounts on ipad

How can I setup a disposable email ((yahoo) account on my ipad?

iPad Air, iOS 7.1.2

Posted on Mar 7, 2015 11:04 AM

Close
Mikequ

Q: How to set up disposible email accounts on ipad

  • All replies
  • Helpful answers

  • by King_Penguin,

    King_Penguin King_Penguin Mar 7, 2015 11:20 AM in response to Mikequ
    Level 10 (133,055 points)
    iTunes
    Mar 7, 2015 11:20 AM in response to Mikequ

    You can create an email account via their website on Safari : http://login.yahoo.com

  • by Mikequ,

    Mikequ Mikequ Mar 7, 2015 4:41 PM in response to King_Penguin
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Mar 7, 2015 4:41 PM in response to King_Penguin

    That does not set up a disposable email address on ipad.

  • by Lyssa,

    Lyssa Lyssa Mar 7, 2015 4:43 PM in response to Mikequ
    Level 6 (17,893 points)
    Mar 7, 2015 4:43 PM in response to Mikequ

    What, exactly, are you trying to do with a "disposable" email address?

     

    ~Lyssa

  • by Demo,

    Demo Demo Mar 7, 2015 5:47 PM in response to Mikequ
    Level 10 (94,961 points)
    iPad
    Mar 7, 2015 5:47 PM in response to Mikequ

    I have no idea what you want to do either. But now after I did a Google search....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_email_address

     

    Why don't you contact Yahoo support and ask them how to do it.

    Disposable addresses in Yahoo Mail - Yahoo Help

     

    EDIT - I think this is what you need. You need the Yahoo Mail app.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-mail/id577586159?mt=8

  • by Ethan7988,

    Ethan7988 Ethan7988 Mar 7, 2015 5:51 PM in response to Mikequ
    Level 4 (1,664 points)
    iPad
    Mar 7, 2015 5:51 PM in response to Mikequ

    Mikequ wrote:

     

    How can I setup a disposable email ((yahoo) account on my ipad?

    Disposable? Why would you do that?

  • by Mikequ,

    Mikequ Mikequ Mar 17, 2015 12:29 AM in response to Demo
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Mar 17, 2015 12:29 AM in response to Demo

    Thank all of you for your replies to my question. I have to apologize for not getting back to you sooner but I had a family emergency. Yes, a disposable email address allows you to use an email address as kind of an alias address. You can use the DEA to reply to web sites without having your main email address compromised. That way you do not receive spam at your main address and you can simply delete the DEA when it gets overwhelmed with spam and start with another one. Yahoo mail allows you to set up a DEA, but It only works to set it up on a windows computer. So far, I have been unable to figure out how to set it up on my ipad. Thank all of you again for your replies.

  • by LotusPilot,

    LotusPilot LotusPilot Mar 17, 2015 2:53 AM in response to Mikequ
    Level 1 (0 points)
    Mar 17, 2015 2:53 AM in response to Mikequ

    I don't believe ypur problem is actually an iOS issue.  I have been researching this problem as I too have been trying to access the yahoo's disposal address system from iPad without success.

     

    Testing would suggest that using Safari on the iPad causes Yahoo to render the "mobile" version of the Yahoo portal - and it is the "mobile" version of the portal that doesn't appear to provide access to the disposable email address settings.  By contast, if you access Yahoo from a "full fat" browser (such as IE or Firefox from a PC or similar) then Yahoo renders the full version of its portal - with access to the disposable address system.

     

    Once your disposable addresses are set-up, delivery to your real addresses occur as expected, but it appears to be ipossible to administer your disposable addresses from your IOS Safari Browser. 

     

    I suggest that you might want to try the Yahoo support forums for more help -  and if you solve the problem with them, please report back here.