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Free Temporary Email

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    What is temporary email?

    A temporary email address is a real, working inbox that exists for a short, fixed period and then disappears. Mail sent to it is delivered to our servers exactly like normal email, stored just long enough for you to read it, and then deleted along with any attachments.

    It solves a narrow but very common problem: a site demands an email address before it will show you anything, and you do not want that address — or the years of marketing that follow it — attached to your real mailbox. A disposable address lets you complete the signup, collect the confirmation link or verification code, and walk away with nothing left behind.

    What it is not: a second permanent mailbox, an anonymity tool, or a place to keep anything. There is no password protecting it, so treat every temporary inbox as public and short-lived.

    How MAILDROP works

    1. Generate A random address is created for you on arrival, using only our approved commercial receiving domains.
    2. Copy One tap puts the address on your clipboard, ready for any signup form or test harness.
    3. Receive Mail hits our servers, is parsed and sanitised, and is stored against your inbox.
    4. Read The inbox updates in place — open a message to see the text, links, verification code and attachments.
    5. Automatically expire When the countdown ends, the address stops receiving and everything stored is deleted.

    Read the longer explanation of how temporary email works.

    Why use a temporary email?

    Protect your primary inbox

    One-off downloads, coupon gates and forum signups are the usual source of long-term marketing mail. Give them an address that expires instead of the one you actually read.

    Website testing

    Register as many test users as a build needs, check the welcome and reset flows, and never pollute a shared team mailbox with staging traffic.

    Email verification

    When a service only needs to prove a message can reach you, a disposable inbox does the job. Detected one-time codes are lifted to the top of the message.

    Free trials

    Try something once without committing an identity to it — where the provider's terms allow it. Some services deliberately block disposable domains.

    Privacy

    Fewer places hold your real address, so a future data breach has less to leak. Remote images are blocked, so tracking pixels do not fire when you read.

    Frequently asked questions

    Do I need an account to use MAILDROP?
    No. An inbox is created the moment the page loads and is tied to your browser session only. There is no signup, password or profile.
    How long does a temporary inbox last?
    Each inbox lives for 60 minutes by default. The countdown above the inbox is authoritative. When it reaches zero the address stops receiving and every stored message and attachment is deleted.
    Can I send email from a temporary address?
    No. MAILDROP is receive-only by design. There is no reply or compose function, which keeps the service unattractive to spammers.
    Will every website accept a temporary address?
    No. Many services maintain blocklists of disposable domains, and some detect them heuristically. If a signup is rejected, that site has chosen to block disposable mail.
    Can I get an old address back?
    No. Once you generate a new address or the countdown ends, the previous inbox is closed and its contents are removed. Copy anything you need before moving on.
    Is a temporary inbox private?
    It is unauthenticated, so anyone who knows the address could read mail sent to it while it exists. Use it for throwaway signups and testing — never for banking, work or anything you would not want a stranger to see.

    See the full FAQ.

    Helpful guides

    Is temporary email safe?

    What a disposable inbox protects you from, and the three situations where you should never use one.

    Why websites block temporary email

    How disposable domains get detected and what it means when a signup silently fails.

    Using temp mail for verification codes

    A practical walkthrough for one-time codes, plus what to do when the message never arrives.

    Use-case guides

    Honest notes on which services tend to accept disposable addresses — and which reliably do not.

    Developer tools

    Password, UUID, hash, Base64, JWT and JSON utilities that run entirely in your browser.

    What we store, and for how long

    The retention rules for messages, attachments and logs, written in plain language.