What is temp mail and how do you use it?

Temp mail is a short-lived email address that needs no sign-up. You use it wherever you would rather not hand over your real address; when time runs out, the address and its mail are deleted.

What is it good for?

• Avoiding spam: Giving your real address to a site you will use once means years of newsletters and promotions. A temporary address stops that before it starts.
• Privacy: Your main address stays out of the databases of sites you do not know, and out of their data breaches.
• Quick trials: Ideal for taking a look at a service, downloading a file, or joining a forum to ask one question.
• Software testing: Developers can test sign-up and verification flows without cluttering real inboxes.

How do you use it?

1. Open the home page; your address is created automatically.
2. Press Copy and paste the address into the sign-up form.
3. Keep the page open. Incoming mail appears in the list within seconds, and a verification code can be copied with one click.
4. If you need longer, press Extend time. The default lifetime is 20 minutes.

When should you not use it?

A temporary address is not permanent. Use your own address for:

• Banking, government, shopping and social media accounts where you may need a password reset later
• Invoices, tickets, contracts and other documents you need to keep
• Personal or confidential correspondence

Once time runs out the address is deleted and cannot be restored, so you will not be able to reset the password of any account tied to it.

What BotyMail does differently

• Asks for no sign-up, password or personal details.
• Does not load remote images by default, so senders cannot track whether you opened a message.
• Only receives mail; it never sends any.
• Only the browser that created the address can see its inbox.