Your Temporary Email Address

Temp Mail: A Free Temporary Email Address, Ready in One Click

No signup, no password. Copy the address, paste it into any form, and read the reply in your live inbox. Delete it when you're done.

Temp mail is a free temporary email address you can use right away and throw away later. TempMail.pw, also known as Temp Mail Ninja, gives you one the second this page loads. Paste it into a signup form, wait for the confirmation message, and it appears in your inbox, usually within 5 to 20 seconds. You can't send from it, and you never need an account.

People call it a temp email, a burner email, a throwaway email or a disposable email address. The name changes, the job doesn't: a real inbox that only receives mail, so your own address stays out of the form.

When a temporary email address is the right tool

Some forms want your email and give nothing back except marketing. A free PDF, a seven day trial, a contest entry, the guest wifi page at a hotel.

For a one time email like that, an instant inbox does the job and leaves nothing behind. You get the message you need, and the shop's weekly newsletter lands in an inbox you've already deleted.

Developers and testers lean on it too. If you're building a signup flow, you need fresh addresses to check that confirmation emails, welcome sequences and password resets all fire, and creating real mailboxes for that gets old fast. A new TempMail.pw address takes a few seconds. Run the flow ten times before lunch.

Spam is the usual reason people reach for a tempmail address, though the numbers are less dramatic than the headlines. Kaspersky measured spam at 44.99% of global email traffic in 2025, down from 47.27% in 2024. You'll also see 51.8% quoted, but that was December 2025 alone, not the year.

Either way, a global average says little about your own inbox, because what clogs a personal mailbox is much narrower: one forgotten signup that keeps mailing you for years. A temporary address cuts that off at the source.

When it isn't

Don't use a temp address for any account you plan to keep. Password resets go to the address on file, and once that inbox is gone, so is your way back in. The same goes for banking, healthcare, anything with a purchase history, and any work or school login.

One thread on the Privacy Guides forum lands on a rule worth copying: use an address you own for anything durable, and a temporary one only when losing it is harmless. If you want privacy and a way back in, an alias that forwards to your real inbox fits better.

Need a timed inbox?

Plenty of people search for a specific timer. Each one has its own page: 5 minute mail, 10 minute mail, 20 minute mail and 30 minute mail. Pick the length that matches how long the site takes to send its code.

Four steps to your first inbox

Open TempMail.pw. An address is already waiting at the top.
Copy it, or change the name and domain if you want something specific.
Paste it into the signup form.
Open the message when it arrives, grab the code or link, then hit Delete.

What you get with this temp mail generator?

Free use needs no registration. Type your own name before the @ or take a random one, and pick from several domains. The domain choice matters more than it sounds, as the next section explains. Scan the QR code and the same inbox opens on your phone.

Incoming attachments are supported, and every file gets a basic malware scan. Basic means common threats, not all of them, so open downloads on a device with antivirus running.

The service only receives mail. Sending is switched off on purpose, so nobody can use it to push spam.

It follows you across devices. The site comes in several languages, and there are extensions for Chrome, Edge and Firefox, an Android app on Google Play, a listing on the Amazon Appstore and a Telegram bot.

Old emails clear out automatically, so you don't tidy up after yourself. Paid plans add custom domains, a longer history, more saved favorites and no ads.

Want an old address back?

Open History in the inbox to see addresses you've used recently and switch back to one. The free plan keeps a short list and paid plans keep more. Save any message you'll need again to your favorites, and if you delete an address, don't count on getting it back.

If the email never arrives

Some websites reject disposable domains outright. Others accept the form and quietly never send the message. The usual cause is a site checking your address against a list of known throwaway providers, and the more popular a provider gets, the faster its domains end up on that list.

Try this in order. Wait two minutes, since some senders queue messages. Then use Change to pick another domain and request the email once more.

Resist the urge to hit resend five times, because many sites throttle repeats and a code from the first request can expire before the fourth one arrives. If the site still refuses, it doesn't want throwaway addresses. Use a real one. The full checklist is in our guide to why temp mail is not working.