Every tool shares one identity key: the same key points to the same person on every page.
Generate a keyThis page does not re-explain the mailbox tool. It answers the question that comes first: when an address you only need for the next few minutes is the right call, and when it is not. The tool itself is above, ready to use.
Current address
— Messages are kept on the mailbox server for 15 minutes and then deleted automatically. This site does not read or record them.
Use the mailbox only to receive registration mail. Do not use it for anything unlawful.
No mailbox yet
No address yet
Pick a domain and choose “Create mailbox” — the address appears above right away.
Copy the address above
One click puts it on your clipboard. No sign-up, and no password to set.
Paste it into the site you are joining
Drop the address into the email field and submit the form as usual.
Come back for the code
The message appears in the inbox above on its own; nothing to refresh by hand. The page checks every 5 seconds.
Copy the verification code
Open the message and the page lifts the code out separately, ready to copy straight back into the signup form.
Throw it away
Use New address whenever you like. The mailbox lasts for this session only and is gone once the tab closes.
A whitepaper download, a single trial, one forum thread you need to read. You are almost certainly not coming back, so handing over your real address only leaves it in someone else's database.
Plenty of signup forms treat the email field as a mailing list and start sending promotions the same day. An address that expires takes the verification code and leaves the promotion with nowhere to go.
During development or acceptance testing, walk the real registration and verification path with a throwaway address. You can mint a new one at any moment, so paths like "register again with a different email" can be repeated without lining up a batch of test inboxes first.
Installers, prize draws and one-time coupon pages that demand an email before they hand anything over are a common source of resold addresses. The address here is not your inbox, so a leak costs you nothing.
This is the one that matters. Once the address expires it receives nothing — including the password reset link — so an important account registered with it is likely lost for good.
Invoices, payment confirmations, platform notices, work correspondence: all of these belong at an address that still exists next month. A throwaway inbox is a verification channel, not a replacement for email.
Put it on a contract, a business card, or anywhere a person is expected to write back to you, and those replies arrive after the address is gone and cannot be recovered.
Some platforms check the email against real-name data, or require an inbox that can receive risk-control notices for the life of the account. Use your own address for those.
The phrase comes from the way the earliest services of this kind worked: an address was kept for ten minutes and then dropped. This site works differently and more generously than the name suggests — knowing both halves is what keeps the expiry from catching you out.
Use the mailbox only to receive registration mail. Do not use it for anything unlawful.
A temporary inbox does not handle your data the way the rest of this site does, and it is worth being precise about that, because it decides what you can safely receive with it.
The form above is the mailbox tool — the same component 10 Minute Inbox uses, with the same features: create an address, receive mail, extract the verification code, clear the inbox. Only the surrounding text differs: that page covers how to operate it, this one covers when to reach for it. Open the mailbox page if you want the step-by-step walkthrough.
No. The name comes from how early services of this kind behaved; this site has no ten-minute countdown. The address stays valid for the whole session and is only discarded when you choose "New address". What does expire is the mail — messages are held on the mailbox server for a fixed window and then deleted automatically.
As long as the page stays open the address keeps working, and several messages arriving at the same address is fine. Close the tab and come back and you have a new mailbox. A few sites remember disposable domains and refuse them; in that case try another domain or prefix.
Do not count on it. Once the address expires nothing arrives, so password reset links and later notices are lost. Use an inbox you control for a long time for anything important; a throwaway address suits the sites you will not return to.
Messages are received and held by the mailbox server and deleted automatically after a fixed window, which the notice under the inbox states. This site does not separately read or record them. The address and ID generators are the opposite case: they run entirely in the browser and send nothing to a server.
Because "temp mail" and "10 minute mail" are two different intents. The first is someone who has already decided to use the tool; the second is someone still working out whether they should. This page answers the second with scenarios, expiry rules and the privacy boundary, and keeps the tool at the top so the answer can be acted on immediately.
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