How it works
A throwaway email works like a burner phone: real enough to receive what you need right now, disposable the moment the job is done. You generate an address, use it for a signup or a code, and let it expire on its own — your personal inbox stays exactly as clean as it was.
There is no signup and no setup. The tool on this page creates the address and shows its inbox together, so you can move from one to the other without copying links or opening new tabs.
The whole flow, start to finish:
- Choose Gmail, Outlook or Hotmail as the domain and press Generate.
- Copy the throwaway address into whatever form is asking for your email.
- The inbox below updates by itself while the page is open — codes appear highlighted, links appear as buttons.
- Use the code or link, then simply stop thinking about the address. It expires on schedule and takes its mail with it.
When to use it
Reach for a throwaway address every time a site wants your email for its benefit, not yours:
- Buying or selling on classified-ad sites, where your address would otherwise be visible to strangers.
- Posting on forums, comment sections and communities you're only trying once.
- Claiming freebies, coupons and beta invites that come with a lifetime of follow-up mail.
- Signing up for services you're evaluating — give them a burner, and upgrade to your real address only if they earn it.
- Receiving one-time codes for accounts you'll abandon on purpose.
Safety and privacy tips
The burner protects your identity only if you don't contradict it. Don't fill the signup with your real name, phone number or payment details — the point is that nothing traces back to you.
Treat the inbox as public. Anyone who learns the exact address can read its mail, so codes and confirmations are fine, but nothing private should ever land there.
Never attach a throwaway address to anything you'll need to recover: no banking, no work, no government services, no accounts you care about. Expiry is a feature here and a lockout there.
If a site feels shady — demands an email before showing its price, or immediately asks for more personal data — the throwaway keeps you clean, but the safest move is still to walk away.
Limits you should know
A burner inbox has deliberate boundaries. Knowing them keeps the tool from working against you:
- Mail is deleted automatically when the mailbox expires — usually within a day. There is no archive and no recovery.
- The free addresses are aliases on shared mailboxes, and some websites refuse aliases outright. Premium original mailboxes are the fallback for strict sites.
- The inbox can only receive. Replies, confirmations-by-email and attachments you need to send are out of scope.
- Mail that arrives after expiry is simply lost. Don't leave a throwaway address on file anywhere you'll return to.
Comparison with a normal email
The two options, side by side:
| Throwaway email | Your regular inbox |
|---|
| What arrives there | One-time codes and confirmations | Everything, wanted or not |
| Spam afterwards | Impossible — the address dies | Continues for years |
| Personal data exposed | None | Your name and history |
| Setup time | One click | Already set up, permanently exposed |
| Recovery | Not available | Standard |
| Best for | Strangers and one-offs | People and services you keep |
