Fake email generator
by TempMaily
The generator above already made you a random address like [email protected] — the difference from typing [email protected] is that this one actually receives the verification email.
by TempMaily
The generator above already made you a random address like [email protected] — the difference from typing [email protected] is that this one actually receives the verification email.
Typing a fabricated address into a signup form feels like the same thing, but it isn't. A made-up address breaks the instant the site sends a verification code — the code goes to a mailbox you can't read, so you never finish signing up. Plenty of forms also reject it outright when the address bounces.
The worse case is that the address you invented turns out to be real. Type a plausible name at a big provider and you may have just signed a strangerup for an account — sending them the spam, and sometimes the harm, that was meant for you. A generated disposable address avoids all of that: it's anonymous andfunctional, on a domain built to catch this mail rather than someone else's. (More on the fake-versus-temporary distinction.)
Not a placeholder — a live inbox with a random local part on a shared domain, for example [email protected].
A random local part that ties back to no name, phone number, or password — you supply none of them.
It catches incoming verification codes and links in real time. It cannot send, by design.
Messages open in a sandboxed frame so scripts can't run and remote trackers stay blocked.
The address and every message in it are erased automatically 24 hours after it's created.
The receive-only, anonymous design makes it a poor tool for the right-hand column anyway — you can't send from it, and there's no identity attached to lend it credibility. If you're weighing whether a disposable address fits your case, start with is temporary email safe.
If you're automating signup or verification flows, generate real receiving addresses on demand and read the incoming code programmatically. See the API docs and the walkthrough on Playwright email verification testing.
Premium swaps the random local part for custom names and lets you generate addresses on your own domain — useful for sites that reject shared disposable domains. $9.90/mo, up to 10 addresses at once; see pricing.
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Custom domain, up to 10 addresses, 2GB storage, no ads — from $7.50/mo billed yearly.
In practice, yes. Fake email, disposable email, throwaway, burner, and temp mail all describe the same thing: a short-lived address you don't own permanently. The word fake just means it isn't your real personal inbox — not that it's non-functional. A generated TempMaily address is a real, working address that receives mail.
A generated one can. The random address at the top of this page is a live inbox on a real mail server, so verification codes and signup links arrive here in real time. A fake address you type by hand — like [email protected] — usually can't, because you don't control that mailbox.
Using a disposable address to keep your real inbox private is legal and normal. What crosses the line isn't the address — it's entering false identity information to defraud, impersonate a real person, or evade a lawful restriction. That's illegal whether the email is disposable or not. A receive-only, anonymous inbox doesn't help with any of that.
On the free tier the local part is random (like k3f9qz) so no two users collide and nothing ties back to you. Premium lets you pick custom names and use your own domain when a random string looks too throwaway for the site you're signing up on.
A generated address does, because it actually receives the email. Paste it into a signup form, and the verification code lands in the inbox on this page within seconds. A hand-typed fake address fails verification the moment the code is sent nowhere you can read it.
No. A free TempMaily address is receive-only by design — it catches incoming mail but cannot send. That's deliberate: it makes the address useful for verification and privacy while making it a poor tool for impersonation or outbound abuse. Premium can auto-forward incoming mail to your real inbox so you can reply from there.