Temp Mailbox

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The address at the top of this page is live and already accepting mail. Copy it, paste it wherever an address was demanded, and whatever arrives will show up below on its own.

Nothing to install, no account, no waiting. If you want a name you can remember, type one in before you use it.

One compartment of your mail, not a replacement for it

You already have a mailbox you actually read. This one sits next to it and takes a specific job off its hands: the signups that only ever needed to send you one message.

That framing matters more than it sounds, because it decides what belongs here and what does not. A discount code, a download link, a forum registration, a one-time verification: these arrive, get used, and are never wanted again. Meanwhile your real address stays out of the databases those signups feed, and your real inbox stays free of what those databases generate for years afterwards.

What this is not is a second permanent mailbox. Everything here expires by design, and the rest of this page is mostly about drawing that line clearly enough that you never cross it by accident.

What arrives here and how you see it

This page never asks the server whether anything has come. It keeps a single line open and waits, and the server speaks first when mail lands. A code therefore appears here at roughly the speed it would appear in the mail app on your phone, and a tab left open all afternoon costs nothing to either side.

What you see is a cleaned copy. Scripts, embedded content and remote resources come out of a message before it is drawn, and what remains is drawn inside a frame that cannot touch this page. Ordinary marketing mail carries enough tracking to make that worth doing on its own; hostile mail makes it necessary. Files sent with a message are kept aside and open once you sign in.

The clock

Without an account the mailbox gets a day, counted from the last time you looked at it rather than from when it was made. The button that hands you a fresh address ends the old one at the instant you press it, mail included, so anything still worth having should be out of the box before your finger comes down.

Signing in stretches those numbers without changing their nature. A week of inactivity instead of a day, thirty days for any individual message, and files that stay as long as the message they arrived with. What no setting anywhere changes is that deletion is final: no archive holds a copy, no backup can be consulted, and nobody here can bring back a mailbox that the cleanup job has already removed.

One more consequence worth knowing: an address that expires goes back into circulation. Someone else can eventually be handed the same name, which is another reason not to leave anything important pointing here.

What never belongs in this box

Three rules, and they cover almost every bad outcome people have with services like this one.

Never as a recovery address. If a site can email you a password reset, that email has to arrive at a mailbox that still exists when you need it. This one will not.

Never on an account with money or purchases attached. Orders, refunds, warranties, subscriptions and anything with a card behind it generate mail you will want months later, and support cannot help someone who cannot prove the account is theirs.

Never on a device or a service you keep. A router, a thermostat, a console, a cloud drive: hardware and subscriptions outlive throwaway addresses by years, and the first factory reset turns a missing mailbox into a locked device.

And one thing that is easy to miss: without an account there is no lock on the box. The address is the whole of the protection, and obvious names get tried by people who enjoy trying them. A voucher code sitting in the open harms nobody. A letter you would rather nobody else read belongs in a mailbox tied to an account.

What a free account adds

Four things, all free, with no paid tier behind them and none planned.

Addresses on domains this page never prints, which survive the detection lists longer for exactly that reason. Ten mailboxes running at once rather than a single one. Files you can open. And a box that answers to you alone instead of to whoever has learned its name.

That last one is the real upgrade. Everything else is convenience; privacy is a different category.

Receiving only, and that is permanent

Mail comes in and never goes out, permanently. Hand strangers the ability to send and the service is relaying spam by the weekend; receiving servers notice within a month and stop accepting anything from those domains, at which point the inbox side is dead too. Half a service that works beats a whole one that lasted six weeks.

Automation is refused on the same grounds. Addresses created by a script wear out a domain far faster than addresses created by people, and the cost lands on everyone else in the form of a name that forms have started rejecting. The domain in your browser bar is held back from the default rotation for a version of the same reason: it is the most visible name we own and burns first.

If the problem is your main mailbox

Plenty of people arrive here because their real inbox has become unusable, and a throwaway address only stops that getting worse. Fixing what is already there is a separate job, and the guides cover it.

If mail you wanted keeps vanishing, start with where your provider files it. If the volume is the problem, the honest mechanics of getting off mailing lists explain why some senders keep writing after you unsubscribe and what actually stops them. If you are wondering how many addresses a person should have in the first place, that has a real answer. And if you already used a throwaway address somewhere you should not have, there is a recovery order that sometimes works.