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Free temporary email that cleans up after itself

10minutemail.now hands you a working email address the moment this page loads. Use it to sign up, grab a code, or unlock a download, then walk away. Ten minutes later the address and everything sent to it are gone for good. There is no account to make, no password to remember, and no real inbox to clutter. If you have ever handed a shop your personal address and regretted it a week later, this is the fix.

How a 10 minute email works

Think of it as a paper cup for your inbox. You get a random address, use it once, then toss it. Behind the scenes, the email generator mints a fresh, hard-to-guess address. Incoming mail shows up in the list on this page within seconds, while a countdown quietly runs down. When it hits zero, automatic expiration wipes the whole thing.

Six timers, so the length always fits the job

A single fixed timer is the norm for most disposable inboxes. This one gives you six:

• 5 minutes - a fast grab for a one-time code.
• 10 minutes - the default, built for everyday sign-ups.
• 15 minutes - room to click a verification link.
• 20 minutes - enough for a multi-step form.
• 25 minutes - built for slow, queued senders.
• 30 minutes - our longest, for trials and testing.

Why bother with a disposable address?

Every time your real address goes into a form, it can end up somewhere you did not expect. A temporary email breaks that chain:

• Less junk: The marketing blasts land on an address that no longer exists, so your main inbox stays quiet. That is spam protection at the source.
• Fewer trails: Sites cannot match you across the web using an address that vanishes in minutes, the way an anonymous email keeps your identity out of it.
• Safer breaches: If a service you signed up for is ever hacked, there is nothing of yours in the leak. Our post on how addresses end up on spam lists explains why that matters.

Using your inbox in four steps

1. Copy the address shown at the top of the page. It is already live.
2. Paste it into any sign-up form, download gate or verification box.
3. Read the reply right here as it arrives, and grab your code or link.
4. Forget about it. The address erases itself. There is nothing to unsubscribe from later.

When people reach for a throwaway inbox

• One-time sign-ups: Forums, free trials and downloads you only touch once. A throwaway email is made for this.
• Untrusted sites: When a site you do not know yet demands an address, hand it a fake email instead of your own.
• Testing your own work: Developers point a sign-up or reset flow at a test email to see exactly what lands.

Honest about privacy

Here is the straight version. Your temporary emails are deleted automatically, and you never make an account, so there is nothing personal for us to hold. Like most free sites, this page does run advertising and analytics from outside partners, and you control those through the consent tool.

What we can promise is simple: no sign-up, no real inbox exposed, and a clean wipe when the timer ends. For the full detail, read the privacy policy, brush up on the security tips worth having, or learn more about who runs this.