Temp Mail Plus

Your address is ready above

There is no form to fill in and no account to create. The address at the top of this page already works. Take it with the copy button, drop it into the field that demanded an address, and whatever gets sent to it appears in the inbox below seconds later.

Prefer to name it yourself? Type the name into the field and choose a domain beside it. People do that when they expect to return to the same address later and would rather remember it than look it up.

Three situations where it earns its keep

A code you need once. A shop puts the discount behind a signup, or a site sends a six digit code before it lets you in. Paste the address above into the form, watch the code appear below, use it, and forget the address existed. The shop keeps a record of an address that will not exist by tomorrow.

A file behind a wall. Templates, price lists, sample chapters and reports are routinely gated: the download link arrives by mail rather than appearing on the page. Those links usually work for anyone who has them and stay valid for days, so a temporary address delivers the file just as well as a permanent one, minus the follow up sequence that starts three days later.

A site you are still judging. New shop, unfamiliar tool, a service a stranger recommended. You do not owe an unknown site your real address before it has proved anything. If mail you never asked for starts arriving at an address you used in exactly one place, you have learned something specific about who that site shares data with, and it cost you nothing to find out.

Why people use a throwaway address

Almost every site now asks for an email before it shows you anything. A message board holds a single thread behind one. A shop trades a discount code for one. A tool wants one before it will export the file you already made. Most of those addresses are never needed again, but the newsletters, the offers and the "we miss you" reminders continue for years.

A temporary address ends that. You receive the one message that matters, do what you came to do, and close the tab. There is nothing to unsubscribe from later because the address stops existing.

The same logic applies when you simply do not know who you are dealing with. A download page, a competition, a form on a site you found through a search - none of them have earned your real inbox yet. Giving them a disposable address costs you nothing and tells you a great deal: if that address suddenly starts receiving unrelated marketing, you know exactly who passed it on.

How the inbox behaves

Messages appear on their own. There is no refresh button and no polling in the background, because the page holds an open connection and the server pushes each message the moment it arrives. In practice a verification code shows up faster than you can switch back to the other tab.

Click a message to open it. The body is displayed in an isolated frame with scripts disabled, so nothing inside a message can touch this page or follow you anywhere. Remote images still load, otherwise most newsletters would look broken, but that is all a message is allowed to do.

When the message does not show up

Most of the time the wait is on the sender's side, not here. Confirmation mail is usually queued rather than sent the instant you press the button, and a minute is normal for a large service at a busy hour. The inbox below updates by itself, so leaving the tab open costs nothing.

If several minutes pass, the likely reasons are short and checkable. The address may have been typed rather than copied, and one wrong character sends the message to a mailbox nobody is reading. The form may have quietly rejected the domain and never sent anything, which usually looks like a signup that succeeded but produced no mail at all: pick another domain from the list and try again. The sender may also be one of the services that refuse to deliver to disposable addresses entirely, in which case no amount of waiting helps.

There is one more case worth knowing. Some senders deliver a first message, then nothing further, because their system flags the address after the fact. For a single code that is irrelevant. For an order you expect to hear about again, it is a sign you needed a permanent address from the start. The full checklist is on why a verification code does not arrive, and the reasons a form refuses the address are in blocked disposable email.

Nothing is kept

This is the part most services are quiet about. Here is exactly what happens.

Your address lives while you are using it. Ask for a new address and the previous one is deleted immediately, together with every message it held. Walk away and leave it alone for a day and the same thing happens on its own. Nothing sits in a database waiting to be leaked, sold or subpoenaed, because after a short while there is nothing left to leak.

That is deliberate, not an oversight. A service that keeps years of other people's mail is holding a liability, and sooner or later that liability finds its owner. We would rather hold nothing.

What it will not do

Being honest about the limits saves you time.

A disposable address is not private in the sense of being secret. Anyone who knows or guesses the address can open it and read what arrived. That is the trade for having no password and no signup, and it is fine for a discount code or a download link. It stops being fine the moment the contents would embarrass you in front of a stranger.

Some sites refuse addresses from services like this one. They keep lists of known disposable domains and check against them at signup. When that happens, pick a different domain from the list - the newer ones are usually still accepted. There is no way to be permanently undetectable on a public service, and anyone who claims otherwise is selling something.

Finally, never use a temporary address for anything you may need to recover. Banking, government, work, a shop that holds your order history - all of those need a real inbox, because the recovery email is the key to the account. Use this for the noise, not for anything that matters.

Sending is not part of it

You can receive here, not send. That keeps the service useful for verification codes and unusable for spam, which is why the addresses keep working. A service that lets anyone send anonymous mail gets its domains blocked within weeks, and then it is useless for everyone.

What an account adds to a free temporary email service

Registering is free and takes a moment, and it changes four specific things.

More domains. Without an account you get the address on this site's own domain. With one, you get the whole pool. This matters because every domain shown to anonymous visitors is scraped and added to disposable blocklists within days, while domains that are never displayed publicly keep passing signup forms far longer.

Ten mailboxes instead of one. They exist at the same time and creating another does not destroy the previous one.

Attachments. Files sent to your address are stored and can be downloaded.

Privacy. A guest mailbox is open to anyone who knows the address. A mailbox belonging to an account is not.

There is nothing else behind the account: no profile, no settings, no newsletter. Your address is used to sign you in and to reset your password.

How this compares with the other ways of hiding your address

A disposable address is not the only tool for the job, and it is not always the best one. The three common options solve different halves of the problem.

Provider aliases are extra addresses that deliver into the mailbox you already read: a plus suffix, or the alias feature some providers offer. Mail keeps arriving forever, which is the point when you want it and the drawback when you do not. An alias tells you who leaked your address, but it does not stop the mail, and a plus suffix is trivially stripped by anyone who wants to.

A second permanent mailbox kept for signups works until it fills with the same clutter as the first one, at which point you are reading two mailboxes and looking for the important mail in both.

A disposable address is the one option among the three that ends by itself. The cost is that it ends by itself: nothing sent later reaches you, and there is no way to reopen a mailbox once it has gone. That trade is excellent for a code and terrible for an order that ships next week. The longer comparison, including when an alias is genuinely the better answer, is in aliases and disposable addresses.

When a disposable address is the wrong choice

Being clear about this saves people real trouble.

Do not use one where losing access would matter. Banking, tax and government, employers, anything shipped to you, domain registration, cloud storage holding your work. All of these send mail after the day you signed up, and the address on the account is what recovers it when something goes wrong.

The rule that covers every case: if losing this account would be a problem, the address on it has to outlive the account. A mailbox designed to disappear cannot do that.

For everything else, which is most of the web, a disposable address is exactly the right tool.