Temporary inbox
by TempMaily
A whole working mailbox that exists just long enough to do its job: it receives real mail in seconds, needs no signup, and deletes itself after 24 hours.
by TempMaily
A whole working mailbox that exists just long enough to do its job: it receives real mail in seconds, needs no signup, and deletes itself after 24 hours.
Plenty of tools will hand you a throwaway address. The part that matters is what receives the mail. A temporary inbox is self-contained: the message lands here, renders here, and dies here. Nothing forwards to a real mailbox behind the curtain, so there is no permanent inbox quietly collecting everything the address was given.
That self-containment is the privacy property. The site you signed up for gets a working address, your real mailbox stays out of the transaction entirely, and once the inbox expires the whole exchange stops existing. If you're curious what happens under the hood — MX records, catch-all receiving, deletion timers — we wrote up how temporary email services work from the operator's side.
An address goes live the moment you load the page — nothing to fill in.
Mail sent to it appears in the inbox within seconds, no refresh needed.
Messages render in a sandboxed viewer; remote images stay blocked by default.
24 hours after creation, the inbox and all its mail delete themselves.
Wondering about the clock specifically? How long a temporary email lasts covers every stage of expiry.
Reach for one whenever a form demands an email you'll regret giving: signups and free trials, gated downloads, WiFi portals, newsletter popups holding a discount code hostage. The inbox catches the verification email, you take what you came for, and the marketing that follows arrives at a mailbox that no longer exists.
Skip it for anything you'll need to recover later — banking, work accounts, subscriptions you're keeping. If you want the one-job-then-destroyed framing, that's the burner email way of thinking about the same inbox.
Premium turns the disposable inbox into a keeper: up to 10 addresses locked to your account, custom domains off public blocklists, forwarding to your real mailbox, 2GB of storage, and no 24-hour wipe — $9.90/mo or $90/year.
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Custom domain, up to 10 addresses, 2GB storage, no ads — from $7.50/mo billed yearly.
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A temporary inbox is a working mailbox that exists for a short time and then deletes itself. It has a real address, receives real mail — verification codes, confirmation links, downloads — and shows each message the moment it arrives. The difference from a normal mailbox is the lifecycle: nothing about it is meant to persist, so there is no account, no password, and nothing to clean up afterward.
The address is just the text you paste into a form; the inbox is the thing that actually receives and displays the mail. Some privacy tools only give you an address that forwards elsewhere, which still exposes a real mailbox behind it. A disposable inbox is self-contained: mail lands in it, you read it there, and when it expires the messages go with it.
No. The inbox at the top of this page went live the moment the page loaded. There is no signup, no password, and no phone number. Copy the address, use it wherever an email is demanded, and watch the message arrive here in real time.
A free TempMaily inbox lasts 24 hours from creation, then the inbox and every message in it are deleted automatically. That window comfortably covers slow verification emails, resends, and the second code some services send at first login. Premium accounts can keep addresses permanently instead.
Yes. The inbox receives the full message, and HTML mail is sanitized and rendered in a sandboxed viewer with remote images blocked by default, so tracking pixels don't fire just because you opened a message. Plain-text and HTML parts are both available, which is also why verification links and codes are easy to grab.
For its intended job — catching signup codes and one-time confirmations — yes, and it protects your real mailbox from the spam that follows. It is the wrong tool for anything sensitive: mail sits readable in the inbox until it expires, and anyone you give the address to can send to it. Keep banking, work, and account-recovery mail on a mailbox you own.