---
title: "A mailbox that expires"
description: "Take an address for an hour, read what arrives, and let it expire."
url: "https://openemail.uk/features/temp-mailboxes"
---

Mailboxes and addresses Soon

# A mailbox that expires gone the same day

Take an address for an hour, read what arrives, and let it expire.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[Every walkthrough](https://openemail.uk/features/in-practice.md)

expires in 58:12

q7k2m9@ pooled domain 58:12

Your verification code 09:41

Download link inside 09:44

Soon. When the ring closes the mailbox is gone. It never touches your own mail.

How it works

## Running in three steps.

1. 01
   
   Take an address
   
   The tool hands you one. No account, no sign-up, no key.
2. 02
   
   Read what arrives
   
   Messages list on the page while the lease is running.
3. 03
   
   Let it expire
   
   An hour by default, an hour at a time up to a day.

What it runs on

## The parts doing the work.

Nothing here is a separate product. Each one is a piece of the mailbox you already have.

Catch-all addresses

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

hello@ yourdomain.com delivered

billing@ yourdomain.com delivered

careers@ yourdomain.com delivered

anything-at-all@ yourdomain.com delivered

oct-2026-signup@ yourdomain.com delivered

Temporary addresses

A free inbox that takes real mail for an hour, then closes, so a signup cannot follow you.

trial-signup@example.com 60 min

extend it an hour at a time, up to a day

Nearby

## Other jobs for the same inbox.

Move your domain over

Point your domain here and every address on it receives, including ones nobody ever created.

acme.com Receiving

MX @

TXT @

CNAME mail.\_domainkey

hello@ acme.com

oct-signup@ acme.com never created

Email at your name

Own the domain your email lives on, and the address stays yours whatever else changes.

2015 jd\_1994@freemail.example

2019 j.doe@firstjob.example

me@ myname.com

Point addresses anywhere

Own the addresses on your domain, and have them land in mailboxes people already use.

hello@ acme.com

ben@personal.example

ops@oldhost.example

[Every walkthrough](https://openemail.uk/features/in-practice.md)