Question 1

What is a temporary email / disposable address?

Accepted Answer

A temporary email is a real, working email address that you can use for a short time without registering an account or revealing your personal one. Messages sent to it appear in a live inbox you can read in your browser, and the address is discarded after a set period. Because it isn’t tied to your name, phone number, or primary mailbox, it’s ideal for one-off signups, verifications, and any situation where you’d rather not hand over your everyday email. When you’re done, you simply let it expire — there is nothing to delete or unsubscribe from.

Question 2

How does a temp email work?

Accepted Answer

When you open this page, we generate a random address on a domain we control and create a short-lived inbox for it. Use the address anywhere that asks for an email. As messages arrive on our mail servers, your browser polls the inbox and displays them in real time, including verification links and codes. Nothing about you is required to create the address — no password, no profile. Once the timer runs out the inbox is cleared automatically, so there’s no long-term record of what you received.

Question 3

Is temporary email safe and anonymous?

Accepted Answer

Disposable email is a strong privacy tool because it breaks the link between a service and your real identity. The sender only ever sees the throwaway address, not your name or primary inbox, which limits spam, tracking, and data-broker profiling. That said, treat any disposable inbox as semi-public: don’t use it for banking, password resets on important accounts, or anything you need long-term access to, since the address and its contents are temporary by design. For sensitive accounts you want to keep private but permanent, a dedicated private inbox with aliases is the better fit.

Question 4

When should I use a disposable email?

Accepted Answer

Reach for a temporary address whenever an email is required but the relationship is short-lived: free trials, one-time downloads, coupon and newsletter signups, forum registrations, Wi-Fi captive portals, or testing your own product’s onboarding flow. It’s also useful when you’re unsure whether a site will respect your inbox — a throwaway address absorbs the spam so your real mailbox never sees it. The rule of thumb: if you don’t expect to need ongoing access to the account, a disposable email is the safer, cleaner choice.

Question 5

How long does the address last?

Accepted Answer

Each generated address is active for a short window — long enough to receive verification emails and confirm a signup — and then expires automatically. You can generate a fresh address at any time after a brief cooldown, and an expired session will roll over to a new one. If you need an inbox that stays active for days or with your own domain, that’s exactly what the Pro permanent inbox is for.

Question 6

Can I come back to the same inbox later?

Accepted Answer

Yes — create your inbox with a password on our temp mail with password page (/temp-mail-with-password) and you can restore it from any device within 24 hours by entering the address and password. The password is stored only as a secure hash, recovery attempts are rate-limited, and the inbox still expires automatically, so it stays private and temporary.

Question 7

Can I receive attachments?

Accepted Answer

The inbox displays incoming messages and their contents, and message bodies are sanitised before rendering so that potentially dangerous HTML and scripts are stripped out for your safety. Disposable inboxes are designed primarily for verification codes and confirmation links rather than for storing important files, so treat any attachments as transient — download what you need promptly, because the inbox is cleared when the address expires.

Question 8

Temp email vs. an email alias — what’s the difference?

Accepted Answer

A temporary email is throwaway: it exists briefly and then disappears, with no forwarding. An email alias is a permanent, disposable-looking address that forwards to your real inbox — so you keep receiving mail long-term while hiding your primary address, and you can switch a single alias off if it starts attracting spam. Use a temp email for one-off signups you’ll never return to; use an alias for accounts you want to keep but without exposing your main address. Our Pro plan turns alias ideas into real, controllable forwarding addresses.

Question 9

Why upgrade to a permanent private inbox?

Accepted Answer

Disposable email is perfect for fire-and-forget signups, but some accounts you actually want to keep — without surrendering your real address. Pro gives you a permanent private inbox with custom domains, unlimited working aliases that forward to it, longer retention, and the ability to disable any alias the moment it gets spammy. It’s the same privacy benefit as a throwaway address, but durable: one subscription keeps your real identity out of every signup, forever.

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