Free disposable email address

What a disposable email address is for

A disposable email address is a real, working inbox you use once and throw away. It sits between you and a website you don’t fully trust yet, so that site’s newsletters, “we miss you” emails, and data leaks never reach your personal inbox.

• Downloading a white paper, ebook, or template that is behind an email form.
• Reading an article or forum thread that asks you to register first.
• Joining Wi-Fi at a café or airport that wants an email address.
• Trying an app before you decide whether it deserves your real address.
• Testing your own website’s sign-up and confirmation emails.

Why disposable email keeps spam away

Once a company has your email address, you can’t take it back. It can be sold, shared with “partners”, or leaked in a breach years later. With a disposable address, there is nothing to take back: the inbox ends after a day, and once our cleanup deletes the address, any mail sent to it is rejected.

It also means a breach of that site doesn’t expose your real email, which is often the username for your important accounts.

Built to be safe to open

Spam and unknown senders are exactly what a disposable inbox receives, so we treat every message as hostile:

• Scripts in emails never run. Messages are cleaned and shown in a locked-down frame.
• Remote images are blocked until you choose to load them, so senders can’t track when you opened the email or see your IP address.
• Attachments are removed before a message is stored.
• Your inbox is private: it can only be read with a secret token stored in this browser, not by anyone who guesses the address.

When not to use a disposable address

Use your real email for anything you need to keep: bank and payment accounts, government and health services, work, and any account where you might need a password reset later. Once a disposable inbox ends, that email address can’t receive anything again.