10 Minute Mail
A free disposable email address for the one email you actually need. Receive the confirmation, then let it go. You choose how long it lives — 10 minutes to 3 days — and the inbox deletes itself, messages included.
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Open source · private inboxes · share links, sending and a full REST API
What 10 minute mail is for
Enter your email to download the file. Enter your email to keep reading. Enter your email to start the free trial. After that one message, almost everything that reaches the address is marketing. A 10 minute email has one job: take that single confirmation and disappear, so your real address never lands on a mailing list.
It is also lighter than opening yet another Gmail account. A temporary email address needs no phone number, no password to remember and nothing to set up on your phone. When you are done, you let it expire. There is nothing to unsubscribe from and nothing to clean up later.
Not stuck at 10 minutes: you pick the lifetime
Most 10 minute mail sites give you a fixed ten minutes, then the address is gone. Verification emails sometimes arrive late, and ten minutes is not always enough. On MoeMail you choose the lifetime when you create the inbox.
| Lifetime | When to choose it |
|---|---|
| 10 minutes | A confirmation email that arrives right away. The cleanest throwaway. |
| 1 hour | A sign-up with several steps, or a code that takes a while. If you were looking for 30 minute mail, this is the one. |
| 1 day | The default. Enough for free trials, download links and event registrations. |
| 3 days | A person has to reply by hand and you don't know when. |
| Permanent | From the Duke role up, you can create inboxes that never expire. |
When the time is up, the inbox and every message in it are deleted for good and cannot be recovered. Save anything important first, or pick a longer lifetime when you create the inbox.
What people use it for
A throwaway email address does not replace your main inbox. It covers the cases where exactly one email has to arrive.
Coupons and first-order discounts
Retailers and brand stores hand out welcome codes, newsletter discounts and birthday offers in exchange for an email address. Grab the code with a disposable address and your main inbox doesn't fill up with promotions every week.
Free trials of apps and software
Streaming services and SaaS tools tie their free trial to an email address. If you want to try something before handing over your real details, a temporary email is the easiest step in between.
Downloads, forums and surveys
Sign up to download a whitepaper, finish an article or ask one question on a forum. Survey and giveaway lists are often shared with partners. None of these one-off accounts need your real address.
Second accounts
A second account on a social network, a game or a community each needs its own address. Reusing your real one links those accounts together.
Development and automated tests
End-to-end tests of a sign-up flow need a supply of throwaway inboxes. MoeMail has a REST API with an OpenAPI spec and webhooks, so it plugs straight into Playwright, Cypress or a CI pipeline without anyone opening an inbox by hand.
Sharing an inbox
Need a teammate to see a test account's inbox, or someone to check one message for you? Share the inbox or a single email with a link. Your password stays with you.
When not to use a disposable email
Banks, brokers, government portals and mobile carriers usually block disposable domains, and the sign-up fails halfway. Even where one gets through, password resets, account recovery and every transaction notice will go to that address later — and it disappears, with its messages, when it expires.
Ask one question: will I ever need to get back into this account? If yes, use an address you will always be able to reach. If you only need to get one confirmation through, use the disposable one.
10 minute mail vs Gmail aliases vs a free email account
The three usual options fit different situations.
| Feature | Disposable address | Gmail plus address | Free email accountGmail, Outlook.com, Proton Mail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reveals your real address | No, it is a completely different address | Yes — drop everything after the “+” and it is your real address | Yes, it is your address |
| Needs a phone number | No | No, it is your existing account | Often, for a new account |
| Deletes itself | Yes, inbox and messages together | No, the mail stays in your inbox forever | No |
| Blocked by websites | Some sites block disposable domains | Some sites reject addresses with a “+” | Almost never |
| Best for | One-off confirmations, free trials, coupons | Sorting your own newsletters | Accounts you want to keep |
A free email account and a disposable address are different things: one is a permanent mailbox that costs nothing, the other is a single-use address that vanishes when it expires. For any service you plan to keep using, choose the first.
Three things MoeMail does that most 10 minute mail sites don't
Share an inbox
Create a share link for a whole inbox or a single email. The other person doesn't need to sign in, and you never hand over your account or password. Share links can expire too.
Send from the address
Not just receive: with sending permission you can also send mail from the disposable address, for the cases that need a reply.
A full REST API
Create inboxes, read messages and set up webhooks with an API key. It fits automated tests and your own apps; the OpenAPI document describes every endpoint.
How to get a 10 minute email
Sign up
Use GitHub, Google or a username. It takes about 10 seconds and needs no phone number. The account is what keeps your inboxes and messages visible only to you.
Create the address
Pick a name, a domain and the lifetime: 10 minutes for a one-off, longer if the confirmation email is slow.
Receive and walk away
Mail shows up in the inbox in real time. When the lifetime ends, the inbox and its messages delete themselves. Nothing to clean up.
Get a 10 minute email now
Free, no phone number, and you choose how long it lasts.