Tools
A throwaway address
that receives real mail.
Take an inbox, watch it fill up live, read what lands with tracking images blocked, then let it expire. No account, no password, and nothing to unsubscribe from afterwards.
Ready
no address yet
It lives for an hour, receives up to fifty messages, and is deleted with everything in it when the lease ends. You can pick your own name for it once you have one.
The terms
- Lease
- 60 min
- Each extension
- +60 min
- Hard ceiling
- 24 h
- Capacity
- 50 messages
- Direction
- Receive only
- Price
- Free
Deleting a message clears the screen, not the counter. The capacity is a ceiling, not a quota you can spend twice.
Reference
What you are actually holding
- Address
- Twelve characters with no vowels, so a generated one cannot spell anything. Type your own instead if you would rather. Anything works except the names a domain has to keep reachable, like postmaster and abuse.
- Token
- The address is not the credential. Minting an inbox hands this browser a token, and that is what every read is checked against. Knowing the address gets a stranger nowhere.
- Lease
- An hour to start, an hour per extension, never more than a day. When it runs out the mail is deleted and the address is held back from reuse for a week, so a late message cannot land in somebody else’s inbox.
- Limits
- Fifty messages per inbox, refused at the door rather than accepted and hidden. Deleting one clears the screen, not the counter. Six new addresses an hour and thirty a day from one connection.
Remote images are stripped out of every message before it is put on screen, so opening one here does not tell the sender you opened it. Attachments are offered as a download and never rendered. Anyone can post anything to an address that has been published.
Questions this raises
This inbox is the same mail server your real one would run on.
Same delivery path, same parser, same spam scoring, same reader with the tracking images already stripped out. The only difference is the hour on the clock and the domain being ours instead of yours. Point your own domain at it and the mail stops expiring.
