Disclaimer

Temp Mail Plus is provided for convenience. This page sets out plainly what it is not suitable for, so that nobody learns it the hard way.

Not for anything you need to keep

Every mailbox here is temporary and every message is deleted on a schedule. No archive exists, no backup holds a spare copy, and no request undoes a deletion. If you use a disposable address for an account you care about, and later need a password reset sent to it, that account is lost. Use a permanent mailbox for banking, government services, work, medical matters, domain registration and anything else with lasting value.

What makes this easy to walk into is the delay. The signup works, the code arrives, everything looks fine, and the trouble appears months later when a service asks you to prove control of an address that stopped existing the same afternoon. Neither we nor the site holding your account can undo that, because the only route it kept to you was the address you typed in.

Not private

Guest mailboxes have no password. Anyone who knows or guesses the address can open it and read what is inside. Treat everything received at a guest address as readable by strangers. A mailbox created inside an account stays shut to everyone but its owner, but even that sits on a free service rather than on a secure channel.

Guessing is not a theoretical worry. Generated names end in four digits so that sweeping a domain costs more than it returns, but a name chosen because it was easy to remember is equally easy for a stranger to land on. If the mail on its way would be awkward for an outsider to read, register first and keep it in a private mailbox.

An address can be handed out again

Deleting a mailbox releases its name back into circulation, and another visitor may be given it later. Mail sent long after you finished with a name can therefore appear on a stranger's screen. Avoiding that entirely would require a permanent register of every address ever issued, which is the one record a service built on deletion should never hold.

No guarantee of delivery

Many services will not send anything to a domain they recognise as disposable, and the lists behind that recognition are rewritten all the time. Mail can simply fail to appear, with no error shown at either end. If a signup fails, try a different domain from the list, or use a permanent address for that particular site.

Most of the time we cannot even establish that an attempt was made. A sender that decides against a disposable domain simply does not send, and nothing reaches us to be recorded. An empty mailbox is not evidence of a fault at this end, and there is no delivery log we can consult on your behalf.

Not for breaking rules

Using a disposable address to evade a ban, to create bulk accounts against a site's terms, or to defraud anyone, is against our terms of use and may be against the law where you are. The service exists to spare you unwanted marketing, not to help anyone misrepresent themselves.

Content of messages

We do not control what is sent to your temporary address and we do not endorse it. Messages may contain links to sites we have nothing to do with. Treat mail from unknown senders with the same caution you would in any inbox: attachments can be hostile and links can be false.

What the cleaning does not do

Scripts, inline styles and embedded frames are cut out of a message before it is written down, and attachments whose extension marks them as executable are discarded rather than stored. Both measures are worth having, and neither is a virus scanner. A document can carry a payload without an alarming file name, and a link that survives the cleaning is still a link somebody wrote in the hope that it would be clicked.

Images from the sender are left switched on, because blocking them turns most ordinary mail into a column of broken icons. The cost is that opening a message here fetches whatever images it contains, which tells the sender the address is live and being read. Is temporary email safe goes through that trade in full.

Once a file reaches your own machine it is your responsibility, exactly as it would be arriving at any other mailbox.

Advertising on these pages

Advertising is what pays for the service. The advertisements are selected by an advertising network rather than by us, and their presence is not an endorsement of a product, a company or an offer. Whatever follows a click is a matter between you and the advertiser.

General information, not advice

The guides on this site describe how signup forms, senders and blocklists tend to behave. Those belong to other people, who change them without announcement, so a description accurate on the day it was written can drift out of date. Trust the page in front of you over a sentence written here months ago, particularly before doing something that cannot be undone, and when you find something stale, the contact page is how it gets fixed.

None of this is legal advice. Where real consequences hang on the answer, ask a professional in your own country rather than a website that hands out mailboxes.

Availability

The service may be interrupted, and may change or end without notice. It is free and comes with no warranty of any kind, express or implied. Anything left in a mailbox at that point disappears along with the rest, and the terms of use set out the remainder.