A 10 minute mail address is a real inbox with a short fuse. You get it the moment the page loads, you use it to receive a confirmation link or a verification code, and it erases itself along with everything inside. Nothing to register, nothing to remember, nothing left behind to sell your real address to a mailing list.
The original ten-minute services shipped with a timer that expired faster than the emails they were meant to catch. Plenty of sign-up flows queue their confirmation mail behind a batch job, and a code that lands eleven minutes later arrives in an inbox that no longer exists.
This inbox starts with an hour on the clock and a Reset timer button next to the address. If you genuinely want the ten-minute behaviour, take your code and hit Delete inbox — that is what the short timer was really for.
Most mail that reaches a throwaway inbox exists to deliver one number. When a message contains a one-time code, it is detected and shown as a large, tappable value at the top of the message with a copy button, so you never have to hunt through a marketing template on a phone screen.
New mail appears on its own, with no refresh button to press — the page holds an open connection and renders each message the moment it is delivered. If you would rather switch tabs while you wait, turn on notifications with the bell icon and you will be told when something lands.
Every visitor is handed an address built from a common word plus eight random characters, which is short enough to read aloud and long enough that nobody will find your inbox by guessing at it. Press New address whenever you want a different one.
If you would rather choose the name yourself, Choose your own lets you set the part before the @ and pick which domain to use. A name you invent is easier for someone else to guess than a generated one, so keep the random address for anything that matters.
You cannot send mail from this address. That is deliberate: a receive-only service is worthless to spammers, which is exactly what keeps our domains accepted by the sites you are signing up to.
It is also not private storage. Treat every inbox as public and temporary — anything you would be upset to lose or to have someone else read does not belong here.
Yes, entirely. There is no account, no upgrade prompt and no payment step — the inbox above is already working.
Yes. Every inbox starts with an hour, and the Reset timer button gives you a fresh hour whenever you need one.
It expired, and expiry means deletion — the address, the messages and the attachments all go at once. Create a new one and carry on.