Temporary Email for Everyday Privacy
Receive short-lived email without giving every website your main address. Learn when a temporary inbox helps, how to use it, and what it protects.
Keep your main email address to yourself
A temporary email address is a separate inbox for messages you only need for a limited time. You give a website this receiving address instead of the personal or work address you use every day.
That separation helps you keep your main address out of another website’s contact list. If the site later sends promotions, shares its mailing list or suffers a data leak, the address you supplied is the temporary one. It can reduce unwanted mail reaching your main inbox and make it easier to keep a short interaction separate from your lasting online identity.
The address is a privacy tool, not a promise of complete anonymity. The website can still recognise your account, device or network in other ways. Choose it for a task that does not require a lasting contact address.
Useful for a brief exchange, download or trial
Some online tasks need a message today without needing a relationship that lasts for years. A temporary inbox gives those messages a place to arrive while protecting the address you keep for people and services you trust.
- Receive a download link for a guide, template or other one-time resource.
- Try a service briefly before deciding whether to give it a lasting contact address, where its rules allow this.
- Read a confirmation or test a signup flow for a website you own or are authorised to test.
- Separate an optional newsletter or short-lived enquiry from your main inbox.
Create an address, receive the message, finish your task
Open the page to receive an automatically assigned inbox; you do not need to create one yourself. All new addresses use a random name, including Premium addresses. Copy the full address into the website that needs it, keep this inbox available, and wait for the incoming message. Before relying on it, check the retention period, message-size limit and storage allowance shown on the page.
A guest inbox is opened with a secret access credential. Keep that credential private and use a device you control. Knowing the receiving address alone does not let another person read this service’s mail, but sharing the access credential can.
An account lets you access inboxes owned by that account through your signed-in session. A verified account with an active Premium subscription can create long-term inboxes with randomly assigned names and use the additional inbox and capacity allowances shown in the plan. A temporary address still expires, and a long-term address does not make individual messages permanent.
A smaller footprint for email, with clear limits
This service receives email; it does not send messages or replies. Delivery depends on the sender and receiving systems. A third-party website may refuse temporary addresses, delay a message or never send one, so acceptance and delivery are not guaranteed.
Mail display removes scripts and automatic remote resources such as images and styles. The inbox displays message text and sanitized HTML only. Attachments are skipped, and original email downloads are unavailable. Following a link can still expose you to tracking, misleading content or malicious files.
Use a durable address you control for banking, important accounts and long-term recovery. A separate email address helps protect your main inbox; read the privacy policy to understand how this service handles data.
Temporary email questions
What is a temporary email address?
It is a receiving address for short-lived messages, separate from your main inbox. Use it for a task you can complete within the inbox and message retention periods shown on this page.
How does temporary email help protect my privacy?
The website receives the temporary address instead of your main email address. This can keep that main address out of another contact list and reduce the unwanted mail sent to it. It does not hide the other information you give the website.
Can someone read my inbox just by knowing its address?
Knowing the receiving address alone does not authorise access here. A guest inbox needs its secret access credential, and an account-owned inbox needs the owner’s signed-in session. Keep credentials and signed-in devices private.
Can I choose my own email name?
No. All new temporary and long-term addresses use automatically assigned random names, including those created by Premium accounts. Premium provides long-term inboxes and higher allowances within the current plan limits.
How long will an inbox and its messages last?
Check the expiry and limits shown for the inbox and your plan. The address and each message can have different expiry times. Long-term inboxes still have message retention and storage limits; they are not an email archive.
Can I send email or reply from this address?
No. The service is for receiving mail. Use a regular email provider if you need to send a message, reply, or maintain an ongoing conversation.
Will every website accept it or send verification codes?
No. Each website decides which addresses it accepts, and the sender controls whether it sends a message. Codes, links and other mail may be delayed, rejected or absent. Temporary email cannot guarantee a website’s acceptance or message delivery.
Is it suitable for banking or account recovery?
Use a durable address you control for banking, important accounts and long-term password recovery. Losing access to an expiring inbox can also mean losing the messages needed to regain access elsewhere.