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title: "Temporary email addresses"
description: "A free temporary email address that takes real mail for an hour and then closes on its own, so a signup cannot follow you. No account and no password."
url: "https://openemail.uk/features/temp-address"
---

[Domains & addresses](https://openemail.uk/features.md#addresses)

# Temporary addresses that close on their own.

Take an address, use it for the signup, and let it go. It receives real mail for an hour, Extend adds another hour up to a day, and then the inbox closes. Free, with no account.

[Take a temporary address](https://openemail.uk/tools/temp-mail.md)[All features](https://openemail.uk/features.md)

In short

## What is a temporary email address?

A temporary address is one you give a signup form instead of the one you read. It carries mail for a while, then stops, so any list it lands on reaches nobody.

How it works

## Ready before the form is

Open the tool and an address is waiting. Take the generated one, or type the name you want on one of the shared domains.

## The hour sits on the address

Mail reaches you while the lease runs. When it ends, the inbox closes and there is nothing left to sign in to.

## Every address you took, with its time left

This browser keeps the inboxes you have open, each with the minutes it has left, so switching between them takes one click.

What you get

## In the product today

Receive only

Nothing is sent from these addresses, so the shared domains stay deliverable for everyone.

Trackers blocked

Remote images stay off until you ask for them, so opening a confirmation does not report back.

No account

No signup and no password. The inbox belongs to this browser until its time runs out.

Good practice

## Getting the most out of it

1. 01
   
   Use it for the throwaway part
   
   Confirmation codes, download links, a wifi login: the things you need once and never again.
2. 02
   
   Extend before it runs out
   
   An hour covers most signups. If a code is slow to arrive, extend in time, because an inbox that has closed cannot be opened again.
3. 03
   
   Move what you want to keep
   
   When the inbox closes, its mail goes with it. For an account you mean to keep, use an address on your own domain.

Where it stands

## Good to know

Questions

## Asked often

Keep going

## Works well with

Catch-all addresses

Every address on the domain receives, including ones that have never been created. One switch closes it.

Forward an address elsewhere

Point any address, or everything a domain accepts, at an outside mailbox instead of this one.

Block a sender or a domain

One address, or everything from a domain, stopped before it reaches you.

Start

## Your domain, your mail.

Point a domain at OpenEmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[Read the reference](https://openemail.uk/docs/knowledge/addresses/temp-address.md)