10 Minute Mail — A Free Disposable Inbox
Get a working address in one click, receive the verification mail, and walk away. No sign-up, no app to install, and nothing left behind in the inbox you actually read.
What Is 10 Minute Mail?
10 minute mail is the name of a category rather than a single product: a disposable email address you spin up for one transaction and then walk away from. The name comes from the first services in this space, which handed you an inbox along with a ten-minute countdown, and it stuck — plenty of people search for 10 minute mail when what they actually want is any throwaway address that will receive one verification email. Either way the deal is the same. You get a real, working inbox without giving a website the address you really read, and when the errand is over there is no account to close, no password to remember, and nothing new sitting in your everyday mail.
On temp-mail.lol the mechanics are deliberately dull. Open the site and an address is already waiting for you — no form, no confirmation step, no account. If you would rather pick it yourself, you can replace the random username with your own before you start, as long as it is at least four characters long and uses only letters and numbers. The address is remembered in your browser, so closing the tab is not the same thing as throwing the inbox away: come back later on the same device and it is still there. There is also a QR button next to the address that opens the same inbox on your phone, which is handy when you signed up on a laptop and want to read the code somewhere else.
This is the part most pages about 10 minute mail get wrong, so it is worth stating plainly: temp-mail.lol does not put your address on a ten-minute clock. There is no countdown, and nothing switches off at minute ten. The name describes what the category is for — a mailbox you need for roughly ten minutes — not a limit the service enforces. If a website is slow and its confirmation email lands twenty minutes later, your address is still there to catch it, and you can receive a second message to the same address without starting over. A hard timer forces a trade you may not want: miss the deadline and you have to register again with a brand-new address, which some services treat as a different person entirely.
Left alone, a temp-mail.lol inbox does not so much expire as get cleaned up. Mail files are deleted once they are older than about an hour, and that cleanup runs every four hours, so in practice a message sits in the inbox for somewhere between one and five hours after it arrives. The address itself is not deleted on a schedule and is not burned: a sender who writes to the same address again later will still reach you. What disappears is the mail. Once the file is gone the verification link is gone with it, and refreshing the page will not bring it back, so if a code matters, read it, use it, and do not leave this tab as your only copy of it.
That makes a ten-minute inbox a good fit for a specific kind of errand. One-time passwords and confirmation links are the classic case, since you only need the address long enough to read six digits. Then there are the signups you never intend to keep: a forum you want to read once, a PDF behind a form, a discount code, a shop you will buy from exactly one time. Free trials and product demos are another, because a trial is a way of auditioning software rather than adopting it. Developers use throwaway addresses to test their own signup flows across a dozen accounts without filling a real mailbox, and there is always some page that will not show you a price until you hand over an email address.
Equally important is what it is bad for. Anything you expect to log into again — banking, government portals, a domain registrar, a hosting account, your main social profiles, a job application, a second factor you cannot re-enrol — deserves an address you will still control next year. A disposable inbox is also not anonymous in the untraceable sense that some sites imply. temp-mail.lol is free because it shows ads, ad and analytics partners set cookies, and our server logs are kept for 30 days; the Privacy Policy lists exactly what is stored and how long it stays. What the address buys you is separation, and it is worth being precise about that: the website on the form never learns the address you actually read.
隐私保护
让你的真实邮箱远离可能出售数据或遭遇泄露的服务。
即时使用
无需注册或填写个人信息，几秒钟即可获得可用的邮箱。
真实收信
实时接收真实的验证邮件、OTP 验证码和确认邮件。
无需绑定
用完即走。无需管理账号，不留下任何数据。
为什么要使用这项服务？
One-Time Passwords and Verification Links
A temp-mail.lol address receives mail in real time, so an OTP usually appears in the inbox within seconds of the site sending it. Because there is no countdown on our side, a slow sender cannot cost you the address. The mail is cleaned up within hours, though, so read the code, use it, and do not treat the tab as your permanent copy.
Signups You Never Intend to Keep
Forums, gated downloads, discount codes and one-off purchases do not deserve the address you will still be using in five years. A throwaway inbox takes the marketing mail instead, and if that site is later breached or simply sells its list, the address in it is not one you care about.
Free Trials and Product Demos
A trial is a way to audition software. Handing it your everyday address turns an audition into something you have to remember to cancel. Evaluate with a disposable inbox, and move your real address into the account only once the product has earned a permanent place in your life.
Testing Your Own Signup Flow
If you build software, you need accounts you can throw away between test runs. Generate a fresh address for each one, verify it, and delete the account afterwards without leaving a wake of test mail in a mailbox you actually read. Every registration gets an independent identity.
Any Form That Wants an Email First
Wi-Fi portals, quote calculators, whitepaper gates and pricing pages that hide behind a form all want an address to market to. Give them one that is not attached to your identity, and keep your real inbox for the conversations you actually want to have.
常见问题
Is a 10 minute mail address really limited to ten minutes?
No. temp-mail.lol does not run a countdown, and nothing is switched off at the ten-minute mark. The name describes the category — a mailbox you need for about ten minutes — rather than a limit this service enforces. Nor is the address deleted on a schedule: it stays in your browser until you generate a new one or clear your site data, and a sender can still reach it later if you kept the address.
What exactly happens to my messages when they expire?
Mail files are deleted by a cleanup job once they are older than about an hour, and that job runs every four hours. In practice a message normally disappears somewhere between one and five hours after it arrives. Once the file is gone the message is gone: no archive, no recycle bin, and no way for us to retrieve it. If a verification link matters, use it or save the code before you close the tab.
I closed the tab. Can I get the inbox back?
Usually yes, as long as you are on the same browser and have not cleared your site data. The address is stored locally in your browser rather than tied to an account, so reopening temp-mail.lol on that device brings the same inbox back until you generate a new address or wipe your browsing data. To read the same inbox on a second device, use the QR button next to the address and scan it with the other device.
Can I send email from a 10 minute mail address?
No. Inboxes on temp-mail.lol are receive-only by design, which is also part of what keeps the service from being useful to spammers. If something arrives that you need to answer, reply from your real mail client and your real address — just be aware that doing so tells the sender who you are, which was the thing you were avoiding in the first place.
Should I use 10 minute mail for an account I want to keep?
No. The point of a disposable inbox is that it does not persist, which is exactly the wrong property for an account you expect to still want in a year. Password resets, security alerts, purchase receipts and recovery codes all go to that address, and once the mail has been cleaned up you have no way to prove the account is yours. Use a temporary address to try something, and move the account onto a permanent address as soon as you decide to keep it.
What is 10 minute mail not good for?
Anything long-lived or high-stakes: banking and payment accounts, government and tax portals, domain and hosting accounts you intend to renew, job applications and recruiter conversations, your primary social and developer accounts, and any second factor you cannot re-enrol somewhere else. It is also a poor fit for anything you will need to sign into from a new device later, because the recovery email will have been deleted by then.
How does this compare with a service that runs a fixed ten-minute timer?
A fixed timer puts a hard deadline on the mailbox: at ten minutes the address is retired whether or not your email arrived, and you start over with a new one. That hurts on a slow sender or a two-step signup, because your second attempt arrives from a different address. Here nothing is on the clock and the address is not retired, which is more forgiving. The trade-off is that mail is cleaned up on a schedule rather than at a moment you can watch, so nobody can hand a message back to you six hours later.
Why did a website reject my 10 minute mail address?
Some services keep blocklists of disposable domains and refuse them at the form, because they would rather have an address they can market to. Temp-mail.lol serves several domains, so the practical move is to generate another address, ideally on a different domain from the one that was refused, and try again. If every domain is rejected, that site has decided it wants a permanent address, and no throwaway inbox can work around that.
Is 10 minute mail anonymous?
It is disposable, which is not quite the same thing. You give us no name, no phone number and no existing email address, and the inbox needs no account. But the service is free because it shows ads, ad and analytics partners set cookies, and our server logs are retained for 30 days; the Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is stored and for how long. What a disposable address reliably gives you is separation from your real identity as far as the website on the form is concerned.
Do I need an account, and what does it cost?
Nothing, and nothing. There is no registration, no trial period, no premium tier gating the inbox and no payment anywhere in the flow. You open the page, an address is generated for you, and you can swap the username for something memorable as long as it is at least four characters of letters and numbers. Ads on the page cover servers, bandwidth and maintenance — that is the whole business model.
区域说明
- On a metered mobile connection, a ten-minute inbox is worth more than it looks. The page is text-light and loads quickly on a slow link, and you only need it long enough to read one code. Because nothing here is counting down, a sluggish connection cannot cost you the address, and because the mail is cleaned up within hours, you are not leaving a readable mailbox behind on a shared or borrowed device.
- If you are signing up for a service that is not sold in your country, or one you do not fully trust yet, put the throwaway address on the form and keep your everyday inbox out of it. The service still gets an address that reaches you today. What it does not get is the address you will still be using in five years, along with everything that a permanent address reveals about where you bank, work and shop.