Privacy Policy
Last updated: 3 November 2026
This policy describes, in plain words, what happens to your information when you use the Temp Mail tool on this page. The short version: we set up no account, ask for no personal details, and keep no copy of your mail. The longer version below is the honest one, including the parts that are not in our hands.
No account, no personal details
There is nothing to sign up for. The tool never asks for your name, your real email address, your phone number, or a password, and there is no profile to fill in. An address is created the moment the page loads, and you use it straight away.
What stays in your browser
So a reload can show you the same address until its 30 minutes are up, your browser keeps a small record on this device only: the current address, the token the mail service issued for it, its 30-minute deadline, and a list of addresses this device has already had (so Change never hands you a repeat). This is stored in your browser's local storage, on your device. It is not sent to us, and clearing your browser data removes it.
Your mail is handled by the temp-mail services
This page runs no mail server of its own. The inboxes are provided by public temp-mail services, and your browser talks to those services to create addresses and fetch mail. Messages you receive are held by the service that hosts that inbox, under that service's own rules. We do not receive, read, copy, or store your mail anywhere in between.
Name-based inboxes are not private
Some addresses here are name-based: the address itself is the only key. Anyone who knows or guesses the name can open the same inbox and read its mail. Other addresses are created as accounts whose token is kept in your browser; even then, anyone you share the address with may be able to reach the same inbox through the service. Treat a temporary address like a public postbox, not a locked drawer: never receive anything private, personal, or sensitive on one.
Addresses live for 30 minutes
Every address on this page retires 30 minutes after it is created. When the time runs out, the address leaves this page and a fresh one takes its place. For account inboxes the page asks the service to delete the account; for name-based inboxes there is no account to delete, so the address simply leaves this page — the same name typed under Custom could still open the same inbox at the service itself. Do not rely on a temporary address, or anything sent to it, being available after its 30 minutes.
Cookies and the Blogger platform
This site is hosted on Blogger, a Google platform, and Google may set its own cookies for the platform to work, under Google's own privacy policy. The Temp Mail tool itself sets no advertising or tracking cookies and runs no analytics of its own; it uses only the browser storage described above, so the tool can remember your current address.
What never to receive here
Never use a temporary address for banking, payment, government, or medical mail, and never use one as the password-recovery address for an account you care about. When the address retires, your way back into that account retires with it — and a code or reset link sent here may be readable by someone else.
Changes to this policy
If how the tool works changes in a way that affects this policy, this page will be updated and the date at the top changed. The version published here is the one that applies.
Questions
Questions about this policy can be sent through the options on the Contact page. No personal details are needed to use the tool, and none are needed to ask a question about it.
Terms of Service
Last updated: 3 November 2026
By using the Temp Mail tool on this page, you agree to these terms. They are written plainly, on purpose: this is a small, free tool, and its rules are simple.
What the service is
Temp Mail gives you a temporary email address and a receive-only inbox, free of charge, with no account and no registration. The inboxes are provided by public temp-mail services; this page connects your browser to them.
Receive-only inboxes
These inboxes can only receive mail. You cannot send, reply to, or forward messages from a temporary address here, and there is no guarantee that every kind of message — for example, large attachments — will be displayed. If you need a conversation, use a real mailbox.
Addresses retire after 30 minutes
Every address lives for 30 minutes from the moment it is created, and then retires automatically: it leaves this page and a fresh address takes its place. Mail in a retired inbox may no longer be reachable. Anything you need to keep — a code, a link, an account detail — should be copied out before the time runs out.
Delivery is not guaranteed
We cannot promise that any particular sender will deliver to a temporary address, or that any particular message will arrive. Some senders refuse disposable domains outright, some services filter mail aggressively, and any service can be slow or down. A code that never arrives is usually a decision made by the sender or the service, and it is outside this page's control. Nothing on this site should be read as a guarantee of delivery.
Acceptable use
You agree to use this tool only for lawful purposes. In particular, you must not use it:
- to break the law, or to help anyone else break it;
- for fraud, phishing, impersonation, or deceiving any person or service;
- to send or arrange spam, harassment, or unwanted bulk contact;
- to collect codes, accounts, or data that are not yours;
- in a way that breaks the rules of a service you are signing up for.
You are responsible for how you use any address created here.
Not for important accounts
Do not use a temporary address for banking, payment, government, or medical accounts, and do not use one as the password-recovery address for any account you need to keep. Addresses retire after 30 minutes, name-based inboxes can be read by anyone who knows the name, and delivery is not guaranteed — each of those is reason enough on its own.
Availability and changes
The tool is provided as-is, free, and without any warranty that it will always be available or always work the same way. The underlying mail services are run by others and can change, limit, or stop their service at any time, which can change what this page is able to do. We may also change or discontinue this page itself.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change, the updated version will be published on this page with a new date at the top, and it will apply from then on.
About Us
What this page is, and what it is not.
Temp Mail is a simple tool with one job: hand you a working email address the moment you need one, let you receive mail on it, and retire it half an hour later. It exists for the small, everyday moments where a website demands an email address and you would rather not hand over the mailbox you actually live in.
What Temp Mail does
- Creates an address instantly. One is ready as soon as the page loads — no sign-up, no password, no personal details.
- Receives real mail. Confirmations, sign-up links, and verification codes land in the inbox on the page, which checks for new mail on its own every few seconds.
- Picks out verification codes. When a message contains a code, it is shown in a large, easy-to-copy box at the top of the message.
- Lets you choose a name. Under Custom you can open an inbox under a name you pick, on the domain shown next to the name field.
- Retires every address after 30 minutes. When the clock runs out, the address leaves the page and a fresh one takes its place, and Change never gives you an address you have already had.
What Temp Mail does not do
- It does not send email. The inboxes are receive-only.
- It does not keep mail. An address lives for 30 minutes; this is not storage, and it is not a replacement for a real mailbox.
- It does not guarantee delivery. Some senders refuse to write to disposable addresses at all. When that happens, no tool can make them.
- It is not private messaging. Name-based inboxes can be read by anyone who knows the name, so nothing sensitive belongs here.
- It has no accounts and no recovery. There is no password to reset and no support desk that can give a retired address back.
How it works, in plain words
Your browser creates the address directly with public temp-mail services and talks to those services to fetch your mail — this page has no mail server of its own, and no copy of your mail is kept anywhere in between. The only thing stored is a small record in your own browser, so a reload shows the same address until its 30 minutes end.
Who it is for
Anyone who signs up for things: the reader who wants a download without a lifetime of marketing mail, the tester checking a sign-up flow, the shopper who needs one confirmation code from a shop they will never visit again. If the account will matter to you next month, use your real email instead — the guide Temporary Email vs Your Real Email walks through that choice.
Our one promise
This page will always describe itself honestly: what it can do, what it cannot, and where its limits come from. Those limits are set out in the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.
Contact
How to reach this site.
First, the reassuring part: you never need to contact us to use this tool. There is no account to approve, nothing to activate, and no personal details are needed at any point. The address on the main page works the moment it appears.
How to reach the site
This site is published on Blogger, and the way to reach it is the message box below. It is Blogger's own contact form: what you write is delivered to the blog owner by Blogger, and a reply, if you want one, comes back to the email address you put in the form. This page deliberately does not list a personal email address or a person's name, because the tool needs neither to work.
Send a message or share your opinion
Questions, corrections, and opinions about the tool are all welcome. The email address you give is used only so a reply can reach you — it is not added to any list, and it is never shown on this page.
When you write, it helps to include
- the @domain of the address you were using (for example, the part after the @ in the address box);
- the sender you were expecting mail from — the service's name is enough;
- roughly when the mail was sent, and what happened: nothing arrived, the inbox would not open, or something else.
Please do not send passwords, and do not send codes you are still planning to use. A code is a key to an account; it should only ever go into the site that asked for it.
What a message to the site cannot fix
- A sender who refused to deliver. Some services will not write to disposable domains at all. Trying a different address — press Change, then ask for a fresh code on the new address — is the working fix, and the guide on receiving OTPs safely explains the order to do it in.
- A retired address. Once an address's 30 minutes are over, it cannot be brought back, and mail sent to it cannot be recovered by us.
- Mail held by a service. Inboxes live with the temp-mail services that host them; this site cannot open, move, or delete mail on their systems for you.
Before you write
Many questions are already answered on the main page: the frequently asked questions cover codes that do not arrive, what happens after 30 minutes, and why an address came from a particular service. For how your information is handled, see the Privacy Policy.
What is a Temporary Email Address?
A plain-English guide to disposable inboxes: how they work, what they are good for, and where their limits are.
A temporary email address — also called a disposable or throwaway address — is a real inbox with a short life. It can receive mail like any other address, but it is not tied to your name, your phone number, or the mailbox you use every day. You use it for the one job in front of you, and then you walk away from it.
How a temporary address works
Underneath, it is ordinary email. A service sets aside a domain, creates an inbox on it, and shows you whatever arrives. The differences from a normal mailbox are the ones that matter: there is usually no sign-up and no password, the inbox is receive-only, and its life is measured in minutes, not years. On this page, every address retires 30 minutes after it is created.
The two shapes you will meet
Account inboxes are created fresh for you, and your browser keeps a token that unlocks them — closer to a real account, just a very short-lived one. Name-based inboxes are simpler: the address itself is the key, and anyone who types the same name opens the same inbox. That makes them wonderfully quick, and not private at all. Knowing which shape you are holding tells you how carefully to treat what arrives in it.
What people use a free temporary email for
- Confirming a one-off sign-up without inviting a stream of marketing mail into a real inbox.
- Receiving a verification code or download link from a service they may never use again.
- Testing sign-up forms and email flows while building or checking a website.
- Keeping a real address out of a mailing list they do not fully trust yet.
The honest limits
Delivery is not guaranteed. Some senders refuse to write to disposable domains, and some services filter hard; a code that never arrives is common enough that this page's FAQ covers it. It cannot send mail.
It is not a safe place for anything important — never for banking, government, medical, or password-recovery mail, because when the address retires, your way back into that account retires with it. And on a name-based inbox, anyone who knows the name can read the mail.
Is it safe to use?
For the right job, yes — that is the whole point of it. A temporary address is a tool for low-stakes, short-lived tasks: one confirmation, one code, one download. The moment an account becomes something you would be upset to lose, it deserves your real email address. The guide Temporary Email vs Your Real Email gives a simple way to decide, and How to Receive OTPs and Verification Codes Safely covers the habits that keep codes safe.
The one-sentence version
A temporary email address is a short-lived, receive-only inbox for jobs that do not deserve your real one — useful exactly because it asks for nothing and keeps nothing.
How to Receive OTPs and Verification Codes Safely
The habits that make codes arrive, and keep them worth something when they do.
Most verification codes sent to a temporary address arrive within a minute or two. The failures people run into usually come from a handful of avoidable habits — changing the address mid-wait, asking for too many codes, or using a throwaway inbox for an account that should never have had one. This guide walks through the safe way, step by step.
The golden rule: one address, start to finish
A code is sent to the address you gave the site — not to you, and not to this page in general. So from the moment you request a code until you have typed it in, keep the same address. Do not press Change, do not open a Custom inbox, and do not let the 30-minute clock run out. Reloading the page is fine: the same address comes back until its time is up. Refreshing the inbox is also safe — it only looks for new mail and never removes mail that has already arrived.
Step by step: a temporary email for a verification code
- Copy the address exactly with the Copy button, and paste it into the site that is asking.
- Request the code once, then come back and watch the inbox. It checks on its own every few seconds.
- Give it a fair few minutes. Most codes are fast; some senders are slow.
- Copy the code from the code box at the top of the opened message, and use it promptly — codes expire, often within minutes.
If the code does not arrive
First, wait a little longer and press Refresh once. Then check that the address on the site matches the address in the box here, letter for letter. If it does and nothing has come after several minutes, the likely cause is the sender: some services refuse to deliver to disposable domains at all, and some temp-mail services filter aggressively. No page can override a sender's refusal — but a different domain often gets through. The order matters:
- Press Change to get a fresh address on a different domain.
- Then go back to the site and request a new code, sent to the new address.
Requesting a new code before changing the address just sends another code to the inbox you are about to leave.
Keep the code itself safe
A verification code is a key: whoever holds it can walk through the door it opens. Use it yourself, use it quickly, and do not share it or post it anywhere. Remember too that on a name-based inbox, anyone who knows the name can read the mail — so if you open a Custom inbox for a code, pick a long, hard-to-guess name rather than your own name, a birthday, or anything predictable.
Codes that should never come here
Some codes protect things that matter far beyond the next ten minutes. Never receive these on a temporary address: banking or payment codes, a password reset for your main email or any important account, and government or medical verification. The address retires in 30 minutes and may be readable by others; the account it unlocks could be yours for years. Use your real email or phone for those, every time.
After you are in
If the account turns out to be one you want to keep, open its settings and change the email on file to your real address while you are still signed in. That one minute of housekeeping is what separates a handy shortcut from a locked-out account later.
Temporary Email vs Your Real Email — When to Use Which
Two tools, two different jobs. Choosing well takes about five seconds once you see the pattern.
Your real email address is part of your identity. It is how services recognise you, how you get back into accounts, and where years of important mail live. A temporary address is the opposite: anonymous, receive-only, and gone in half an hour. Neither is better in general — each is better at its own job.
Use a temporary address when…
- You need one confirmation or one code from a service you may never use again.
- A site demands an email for a download, a trial, or a single read, and you do not want its marketing mail following you home.
- You are testing a sign-up form or an email flow and need an inbox that works right now.
- Losing access to the account afterwards would be, at worst, a shrug.
Use your real email when…
- The account holds money, work, or anything you would be upset to lose — banking, payments, your main accounts.
- You will need password recovery later. Recovery is where temporary addresses fail people: the address is gone, so the way back in is gone.
- The relationship is ongoing — receipts, bookings, subscriptions, government or medical services.
- The mail itself is private. A name-based temporary inbox can be read by anyone who knows the name.
Side by side
Temporary address
- Lives about 30 minutes
- No sign-up, no password
- Receive-only
- Not linked to your identity
- Some senders refuse to deliver to it
- No recovery once it retires
Your real email
- Yours for years
- Protected by your password
- Sends and receives
- Tied to your name and accounts
- Accepted everywhere
- Recovery and history stay available
The middle ground
Many real mailboxes offer aliases — extra addresses that land in the same inbox — or plus-addressing, where name+shop@example.com still reaches you. These are handy for sorting and spotting who shared your address, but they are still tied to your real mailbox: they hide your main address from a sign-up form, not from the mailbox provider, and a leak still points back to an inbox you keep. Useful, but a different tool from a disposable address.
The one mistake that costs people accounts
It goes like this: someone signs up for something with a temporary address, the something turns out to matter, months later they are logged out, and the password-reset email goes to an inbox that retired long ago. No support desk can fix that — there is no account holder to prove. If there is any chance you will want back in, that chance is the answer: use your real email.
A rule of thumb
Ask one question: "If this address vanished in 30 minutes, what would I lose?" If the answer is "nothing", a temporary address is the right, tidy tool — and the guides What is a Temporary Email Address? and How to Receive OTPs and Verification Codes Safely will help you use it well. If the answer is anything else, your real email has just earned its place.