--- title: "Disposable addresses - OpenEmail" description: "Give every site its own address on your own domain, see which one starts getting spam, and switch that one off" url: "https://openemail.uk/use-cases/disposable-mailboxes" --- Signups, forms and downloads # Hand out addresses you can throw away Every form wants an address. Give each one its own, see which starts getting spam, and switch that one off without touching the rest. [Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[All use cases](https://openemail.uk/use-cases.md) Addresses 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. Where it starts ## What this looks like today. One address does everything The same address sits on every form you have filled in since your first account. Spam arrives with no trail When it starts, nothing in the message tells you which site handed your address on. Some signups last five minutes A download link, a code to paste, a wifi login: you need an address once and never again. How it works ## Running in four steps. 1. 01 Add your domain A new domain arrives with catch-all on, so every address on it receives from the start. 2. 02 Invent an address in the form Type shop@yours.com straight into the signup form, and the address exists when the first mail lands. 3. 03 Watch Settings, Addresses Every address you have used is listed there with the date it last received something. 4. 04 Switch off the one that leaked Turn that address off, or block the sender outright, and new mail stops while what arrived stays. What it runs on ## The parts doing the work. The parts this runs on: catch-all delivery, replies from the address that received, tracking pixels stripped, and the blocking and spam filtering for the rest. 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 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 Send as any alias Reply from the exact address the mail arrived on. to billing@acme.com from billing@acme.com Phishing & spam filtering Mail the sending domain itself disowns lands in Spam rather than the inbox. receipts@ stripe.com SPF DKIM DMARC verified sender Block a sender or a domain One address, or everything from a domain, stopped before it reaches you. deals@spammy.io blocked sender anyone@spammy.io blocked domain hr@recruit.co language filter ci@acme.dev your rule → archive Tracking pixels stripped The invisible image that tells a sender you opened their mail is gone before you see the message. tracking pixel stripped hidden preheader stripped remote image stripped 0 left to phone home In practice ## Every piece, walked through. Each page below is a single run through: an address per site, addresses you never created, and reading with the pixels out. A mailbox that expires Soon Take an address for an hour, read what arrives, and let it expire. q7k2m9@ pooled domain 58:12 Your verification code 09:41 An address per signup Give every site its own address, then see which one starts getting spam. shop@ acme.com news@ acme.com Any address you invent Every address on your domain arrives, including the ones you never created. Sign-up form shop@acme.com shop@acme.com Delivered Read without being tracked Tracking pixels come out before a message is drawn, and remote images load only when you allow them. Images are off Show images Requests to sender 0 Questions ## Asked before signing up. Do I have to create each address before I use it? No. Every address on your domain receives from the day the domain is added, including ones you never created, up to 500 per domain. The row in Settings, Addresses appears when the message lands. Can an address expire on its own? On your own domain, no: a catch-all address lasts as long as the domain does, and you switch it off yourself. For a signup you never want to hear from again, the free temporary email tool gives you an address that closes on its own after an hour. Can I reply from one of these addresses? Yes. A reply leaves from the exact address the mail arrived on, so a message sent to shop@yours.com is answered by shop@yours.com and the site never sees another address. Nearby ## Other jobs for the same mailbox. Email that outlives Your domain, an address you invent for each signup, and nothing reporting back when you read. Change provider later and the addresses come with the domain. 2015 jd\_1994@freemail.example 2019 j.doe@firstjob.example me@ myname.com Your product gets the mail Every ticket, record or customer can have its own address. Mail sent there reaches your endpoint as a signed event, and your code answers as that address. Ticket 8123 ticket-8123@ in.yourapp.com Ticket 8124 ticket-8124@ in.yourapp.com To ticket-8123@ in.yourapp.com From ticket-8123@ in.yourapp.com Same address Keep your domain yours Publish the records that prove your mail is yours. Every message that arrives comes scored, with the sender checks and the reasons on it. yourdomain.com Records found TXT @ CNAME oe1.\_domainkey TXT \_dmarc MX @ [All use cases](https://openemail.uk/use-cases.md)