10 minute mail, then it's gone
A working inbox with a ten-minute fuse. When the countdown below reaches zero the address is gone for good — you cannot get it back, and nothing further can be delivered to it.
Your temporary address 10 min
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This inbox dies in minutes. Want an address that lives forever?
A free permanent alias forwards to your real inbox and switches off the second it starts attracting junk. Or read mail from any provider in the Webmail app.
Why ten minutes and not an hour
Most of the time you need a disposable address for exactly one round trip: paste it into a signup form, wait for the confirmation link, click it, never think about it again. The whole transaction takes under a minute. A ten-minute window covers that with room to spare while guaranteeing there is nothing left behind afterwards — no inbox slowly filling with follow-up marketing, no address sitting around waiting to be scraped and resold.
A shorter clock is also a smaller blast radius. If someone were to guess your address — the local part is ten characters from a 32-symbol alphabet, so roughly a thousand trillion combinations, but humour the thought — a ten-minute window gives them almost nothing to look at. The sixty-minute default on the temp mail home page is the right choice when you expect a slow sender or want to re-read a message; ten minutes is the right choice when you want the trace gone.
How to use the ten-minute inbox
Copy the address at the top of this page, paste it into whatever is asking for an email, and leave this tab open. New mail appears in the list within about five seconds of arriving — the page checks for you, and only while the tab is actually visible, so it is not burning your battery in the background. Click a message to read it. Confirmation links are listed separately underneath the message body so you can click them without the email itself being allowed to load anything from the network.
What ten-minute mail is not good for
Do not use it for anything you might need to log back into. Password resets go to the address that registered the account, and if that address expired ten minutes after signup, the account is gone. The same applies to purchase receipts, tickets, invoices and two-factor recovery codes. Use a throwaway address for things that do not matter, and something permanent for things that do. If your objection to "something permanent" is that it invites spam, the answer is not a temporary address — it is an alias you can switch off.
Also worth knowing: these inboxes never send. That is deliberate. Services that let anonymous users send mail end up on outbound blocklists within weeks and get shut down. Receive-only keeps the domains healthy, which keeps your confirmation emails actually arriving. Related reading: how disposable email works and throwaway addresses for one-time signups.
10 minute mail: common questions
What is 10 minute mail?
A temporary email address with a ten-minute life span. You use it to receive one confirmation link or one download code, and by the time you have closed the tab it no longer exists. Nothing to delete, nothing to unsubscribe from.
Is 10 minutes long enough?
For a confirmation email, yes: most arrive in under five seconds. If the sender is slow, or you need to come back to the message later, use the sixty-minute inbox on the home page instead. Both are the same tool with a different clock.
What happens after 10 minutes?
The address stops being displayed and you cannot recover it, so nothing more can reach you at it. Any message it already received is deleted by a server-side time-to-live policy within the hour. There is no archive and no recovery. If the same random address were somehow generated again by someone else, it would start empty.
Can I extend the 10 minutes?
Generate a new address on the home page for a full hour. If you find yourself extending repeatedly, what you actually want is a permanent alias that you can switch off on demand, which is a different and better tool for the job.
Do I need to register or install anything?
No. There is no account, no app, no browser extension and no cookie. The address is generated in your browser and held in sessionStorage until you close the tab.