Temp Mail (Disposable Email / 10 Minute Mail)

What a disposable email address is

A disposable address is a working inbox you keep for minutes rather than years. It receives mail like any other address, but it is expected to be thrown away once the code you were waiting for has been copied. It is not a way to hide from a service you use every day; it is a way to keep a one-off sign-up out of your main inbox.

disposable email address

How this mailbox works

Press “Create mailbox” and a random address is issued on one of the domains above; there is no sign-up and no password. Mail arrives in the inbox on its own — the page checks every five seconds while it is visible — and the verification code inside a message is lifted out so you can copy it in one tap.

how temporary mail works

When to use it, and when not to

Use it for a one-off sign-up, a download gate or a trial you will not keep, where the only mail you expect is a confirmation link or a code. Do not use it for anything you need later: this inbox lasts for the session only, there is no password to recover it with, and a message that expires or is cleared is gone. For accounts you intend to keep, use an alias on your own mailbox instead.

which address to use for sign-ups

Why some sites block disposable email

Several services reject the well-known disposable domains outright, because throwaway addresses are used for abuse and their sign-ups tend to churn. Whether a given site accepts one is a property of that site, not of this mailbox: the field simply refuses the address, or the confirmation mail is never sent.

why sites block disposable domains · what to do when a site blocks yours

Privacy and retention

The address is created by a separate mailbox server, and that server is the only place the messages exist. This site never reads or records them, and the server deletes them after a short fixed window. Nothing is tied to an account, because there is no account.

For developers and QA

The same mailbox backend exposes a small HTTP API, so a test can create an address, wait for the confirmation mail and read the code without a human in the loop. That makes it usable for sign-up and password-reset flows in end-to-end suites.

temp mail API for automated tests

When is a 10 minute inbox the better fit?

If you only need to receive one verification code and the address can expire a few minutes later, 10 Minute Inbox goes into those scenarios and their caveats in more detail; this page treats the mailbox as a tool you keep using.

Reproducible output (identity key)

Every tool on this site shares one identity key, and the same key always points at the same person. Enter a key before generating and the name, address, ID number, employment and online profile come back exactly as they did last time — which is what lets an automated test pin a sample, and a bug report name the record it saw. The key is one you type or generate here; this site does not store it, it only feeds it to the generator locally.

What it is good for

Form and signup-flow testing

Fill a registration form with addresses, phone numbers and ID numbers in the local format, so required-field, length, charset and conditional validation can be exercised before any real data exists.

A fixed sample for automated tests

Put one identity key in the fixture and CI gets the same person on every run: assertions stay stable, and a failure can be reproduced from the key.

Demo and prototype data

Give a demo environment, a screenshot or a design file records that look real, instead of "John Doe / 123" placeholders.

International layout and format checks

German concatenated street names, CJK addresses written without separators, names carrying diacritics: exactly the inputs that make a layout truncate or shift.

Frequently asked questions

These answers describe what the site actually does. If something disagrees, the address in the footer reaches the maintainer.

Data format reference

Field names match the interface on this page; the format column keeps the generator's mask notation: # is a digit, A a letter, and … marks a value the algorithm supplies or a part carried over from real data.

Current address

…@… · #/A

Mail domain

tempyard.com · mail.tempyard.com

Related tools

• Virtual CardGenerate format-correct, Luhn-valid test card numbers for Visa, Mastercard, UnionPay and other networks. You can also paste a partial number and complete it. For software testing only.
• Virtual AddressGenerate a complete address in the real format of the country you pick: street, city, administrative division, postal code and phone number, all drawn from the same region so the fields agree with each other. Built for signup testing, form validation and international address display.
• Virtual CompanyGenerate a complete company entity: name, industry, size, legal form, registered office, contact number, and the company registration and VAT numbers for that country. Use the same identity key to match the Identity, Address and Card pages exactly.
• Virtual CareerBuild a complete CV from the identity record: current role, past roles, education history, skills, and the real professional credentials for that industry and country. On the same identity key it matches the Identity page's qualification and job exactly.
• ValidatePaste a card number, an IBAN or a national ID and this page checks it with the exact algorithms the generators use, explaining every part it can. Where no checksum is published, it says "format only" rather than pretending the value passed.

These pages share one identity key: copy the key from any of them and the same record can be reproduced on the rest.

Is the generated data real?

No. Every field is synthesised by an algorithm running in this browser: nothing is looked up, no database is queried and no real person's details are used. It is reproducible — the same identity key always builds the same record. The formats follow the country's real conventions and the check digits pass wherever the country's published algorithm is implemented, but no record matches a real person, address or account, and none of it was issued or registered by anybody. That makes it suitable for form testing, demos and automated fixtures, and not a way to pass as someone else.

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