Personal email that won't get blocked by corporate forms?

[Kermit power]

Morning all,

Does anyone know of any personal email providers that are less likely to get blocked by forms on company websites saying "please enter a corporate email address"?

Some work with any old made up rubbish so long as it has the right syntax for an email address and isn't Gmail, Hotmail or whatever, but plenty of others send either a validation or download link to the email address provided.

I'm asking as, having been made redundant, I don't have a corporate email address, and in some cases it's making it much harder to access product info on companies I'm looking at!

[Mr Pointy]

It sounds as if you might need to register a cheap domain with a mailbox attached to it.

[OutInTheShed]

What forms are not accepting your email?

If you are a member of any professional institutions you might be able to get a free email address @<the institute of something>

google domains will do you a .co.uk domain with email forwarding for about £12 a year.

There are free email providers who give @<something vaguely workish> which might pass casual scrutiny.

If you have any friends with a ltd co and a domain of their own, they might let you have a mailbox on their domain.

I used to find a personal .co.uk email quite adequate for having trade accounts and blagging free samples FWIW.

[Sheepshanks]

OutInTheShed said:

I used to find a personal .co.uk email quite adequate for having trade accounts and blagging free samples FWIW.

It's more of a compliance thing now - companies can't validate who the sender is if it's Gmail, Hotmail etc and they don't want to deal with private individuals of unknown age etc.

[SteveKTMer]

If you get a free Cloudflare account, you can use them as your domain registrar - they charge a pittance for domain registration and the renewal and they also provide a DNS service and email forwarding, either catchall or filtered for individual mail addresses. Cheap and all in one package and unlike many of the domain registrars, won't disappear overnight or suddenly stop working.

[OutInTheShed]

Sheepshanks said:

It's more of a compliance thing now - companies can't validate who the sender is if it's Gmail, Hotmail etc and they don't want to deal with private individuals of unknown age etc.

What companies in what circumstances?

[768]

Sounds like something I'd use mailinator.com for, and one of the hundreds of domain aliases if one is blocked.

[Sheepshanks]

OutInTheShed said:

What companies in what circumstances?

Companies like the ones the OP is asking for product information.

[dundarach]

What information are you trying to pass on?

Is what you're saying is that you can't email them something?

Never heard of blocking gmail's coming in, is that a thing?

My .gov.uk lets anything in.

[Kermit power]

dundarach said:

What information are you trying to pass on?

Is what you're saying is that you can't email them something?

Never heard of blocking gmail's coming in, is that a thing?

My .gov.uk lets anything in.

I've been on the other side where we've got zero interest in having anyone as a lead if they've not provided a work email address, not least because they could easily be a competitor fishing for info, but also because it makes it much harder to figure out which seller to give the lead to.

Your .gov email address would be absolutely fine, but I'm not aware of a way to get one as an individual!

[Sebring440]

Kermit power said:

Your .gov email address would be absolutely fine, but I'm not aware of a way to get one as an individual!

You've completely misunderstood what he said.

[Kermit power]

Sebring440 said:

Kermit power said:

Your .gov email address would be absolutely fine, but I'm not aware of a way to get one as an individual!

You've completely misunderstood what he said.

Ah, so I have, although I suspect he has also misunderstood what I originally asked!

To clarify, this isn't about sending something to someone by email and seeing it blocked or sent to spam. It's about filling out an online form to request access to a firewalled analyst's report, for example, where the company providing the report wants people to register with a corporate email address so they can more easily validate their identity.

[V8RAW]

Kermit power said:

Ah, so I have, although I suspect he has also misunderstood what I originally asked!

To clarify, this isn't about sending something to someone by email and seeing it blocked or sent to spam. It's about filling out an online form to request access to a firewalled analyst's report, for example, where the company providing the report wants people to register with a corporate email address so they can more easily validate their identity.

For getting forms filled and access I use https://temp-mail.org/

This is when I don't want spam from them.

[singlecoil]

OutInTheShed said:

...google domains will do you a .co.uk domain with email forwarding for about £12 a year...

They'll do you the domain for £10 a year in most cases, but you have to pay for the domain email and it's quite expensive, at least £5 a month IIRC, you have to have their bundle with G-Suite, none of which would I have a use for.

[GCH]

singlecoil said:

OutInTheShed said:

...google domains will do you a .co.uk domain with email forwarding for about £12 a year...

They'll do you the domain for £10 a year in most cases, but you have to pay for the domain email and it's quite expensive, at least £5 a month IIRC, you have to have their bundle with G-Suite, none of which would I have a use for.

Not necessary.
Email forwarding is free, for up to 100 of them. You just set the email forwarding for the desired email address - so, say, '[e-mail]' points to your gmail/hotmail/wherever - then verify it as an alias/sender within gmail/hotmail/wherever so you can reply from that email. Works well.

[paulrockliffe]

If you have a Microsoft Account then [e-mail] will forward to [e-mail], it's the Office 365 email setup for Office 365 if you don't have your own domain. Can't imagine companies blocking that.

[abzmike]

Some companies want to filter sending information to competitors, so insist on a legitimate corporate address that could be a customer. Bit daft really, unless the information is really secret.