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What is a temporary email address?
A temporary email address is a real inbox you can use once and abandon. It is created for you instantly, it receives mail like any other address, and it deletes itself when its window closes. People call the same thing by many names — temp mail, disposable email, throwaway email, burner email, fake email, a one-time email or an anonymous inbox. They all describe what this page does.
The usual reason to want one is simple: a site demands an email address before it will show you anything, and you would rather not hand over the address you actually use. A disposable inbox takes the verification code, and the site has nothing it can sell on or use to reach you later.
Temp mail, disposable email, burner inbox — what's the difference?
The terms overlap, but the small differences are worth knowing. Temp mail and temporary email are the umbrella names for any inbox meant to be used briefly and then dropped. 10 minute mail is the same idea with a short, fixed lifespan — a name that stuck from early services that expired the address after ten minutes. A disposable or throwaway email describes what you do with it: use it once, throw it away. A burner email borrows the "burner phone" idea — an address you keep only until it has done its job.
People also search for a fake email address, but that name is misleading. The inbox here is real: it accepts mail, shows you the message, and satisfies any site's verification. What is disposable is your attachment to it, not the inbox itself. A temporary address is also different from an email alias or a forwarding rule, which quietly delivers to your real mailbox. Here there is no real mailbox behind the address — so nothing traces back to you, and nothing piles up in an inbox you later have to clean out.
Why use a disposable email address?
Sign-ups and verification codes
Free trials, downloads, forums, Wi-Fi portals and one-off registrations. Collect the confirmation code, finish the signup, walk away.
Keeping your real inbox clean
Every address you give out is an address that can be sold on. A throwaway one cannot follow you into next year's spam.
Testing and development
Check that your own signup flow, password reset or receipt email actually arrives — without filling a personal inbox with test messages.
When a temporary email address is the right tool
Reach for a disposable inbox whenever an email address is the price of entry and you get little in return. That covers free trials and downloads that demand an address before they show you anything, forum and community sign-ups you may never come back to, Wi-Fi and hotel portals that gate the connection behind a form, and the endless one-time verification codes a site sends only to confirm you exist. It is just as useful defensively: hand out a throwaway address and a future data breach, a sold mailing list, or a newsletter you never wanted cannot follow you back to the inbox that matters.
Developers and testers rely on it too. A temporary address is a clean way to check that your own sign-up flow, password-reset email or purchase receipt actually arrives, without burying a personal inbox under test messages. And because a fresh address is one click away, you can run the same test again and again with a new identity each time.
When to use your real email instead
A temporary inbox is the wrong tool for anything you will need to get back into. Because the address expires and its messages are deleted on a schedule, do not use it for a bank, a government service, a work account, or any login tied to money, identity, or a warranty you might one day need to claim. The same goes for two-factor codes on accounts you intend to keep: once the address is gone, a code sent to it is gone with it, and the inbox cannot be recovered afterwards. Use a disposable address for the throwaway moments, and your own for the ones that have to last.
How it works
Get an address
A random address is created for you the moment you open this page. There is nothing to sign up for and no password to choose.
Use it anywhere
Paste it into any form that needs an email address. Messages sent to it arrive here within seconds, on their own.
It cleans itself up
The address stops receiving after its window closes, and stored messages are deleted automatically. Nothing lingers.
Two clocks: how long your address and your mail last
Every inbox here runs on two separate timers, and it helps to know they are not the same thing. The first is how long the address keeps accepting mail — once that window closes the address stops receiving, so a code sent too late simply will not arrive. The second is how long a message that did arrive is stored before it is permanently deleted. Both count down in plain sight above your inbox, so you always know how long you have to finish a sign-up and how long a message will still be there to read. Most temp-mail services show a single "expires in" timer; keeping the two apart is deliberate, because "the address still works" and "your messages are still here" are different promises.
One more thing worth stating plainly: this is a receive-only service. You can read whatever arrives, but nothing can ever be sent from a temporary address — there is no reply, no forwarding, and no outbound mail of any kind. That is exactly why it is safe to hand the address to a stranger's sign-up form.
Frequently asked questions
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Using this service safely
This service is receive-only. You cannot reply, forward or send from a temporary address, and there is no way to do so through this site.
Anyone who learns both your address and its recovery code can open the inbox, so treat the recovery code the way you would treat a password. Never use a temporary address for a bank, a government service, a work account, or anything you would be unable to replace — the address expires and cannot be recovered afterwards.
Messages are stored encrypted and deleted on the schedule shown above your inbox. Read our privacy policy for exactly what is kept and for how long.