The Bottom Line
You cannot manually control sent messages, however, and WILL SELF-DESTRUCT only supports simple plain text.
WILL SELF-DESTRUCT is no longer available.
Pros
- WILL SELF-DESTRUCT lets you send email messages anonymously
- You can specify for each email when it will self-destruct
- WILL SELF-DESTRUCT is particularly easy to use
Cons
- WILL SELF-DESTRUCT does not offer full anonymity, and the HTTPS interface may not work
- You cannot edit sent mail or track its reading status at WILL SELF-DESTRUCT
Description
- WILL SELF-DESTRUCT lets you send email messages that destruct automatically.
- You can have your message disappear after a few seconds of reading, after multiple views, or after a certain number of days.
- WILL SELF-DESTRUCT lets you send emails anonymously, but you can also specify your name and email address.
- You can recycle a message just sent through WILL SELF-DESTRUCT and mail it to further recipients.
- WILL SELF-DESTRUCT does a good job protecting your secure message from saving and copying.
- You can block your email address from receiving self-expiring emails sent through WILL SELF-DESTRUCT.
Guide Review - WILL SELF-DESTRUCT - Anonymous Self-Destructing Email Service
In WILL SELF-DESTRUCT, you have but to enter the recipient's email address, a subject (which will not self-destruct!) and your message. Specify how often or how long (either in seconds — for a single view — or in days) the message can be viewed and click "SEND MESSAGE".
You can add your name and email address or stay anonymous. Do keep in mind that WILL SELF-DESTRUCT, though very good, does not offer absolute anonymity. Records may connect the recipient and the message you sent to the computer you used to send it.
Now what does the recipient get: a link. Following the link, they can read your message — for however long or often you have allowed it. When the time is over, the message bangs and explodes and is no more. What remains is actually more akin to a Rorschach test image, but either way the message is gone. JavaScript protects the message pretty well against all kinds of copying. There's no stopping somebody from pointing their cell phone camera's lens at the monitor, of course.
Unfortunately, WILL SELF-DESTRUCT leaves little for you to do or see after a message has been delivered. Neither can you manually expire or delete a WILL SELF-DESTRUCT message nor get notified when it was opened (or even by whom).
It's also a pity that the secure HTTPS interface did not work. This would encrypt the message as you type it into the web form. (Via the normal route, that transfer can be intercepted and stored in spite of the message at WILL SELF-DESTRUCT being destructed.)
It would be nice, perhaps, for WILL SELF-DESTRUCT to support sending of images or files. The simple interface makes for very easy mailing of anonymous and self-destructing emails, though.
