Frequently asked questions

A temporary email address is a disposable inbox you can use for a short period without signing up. It receives real emails — verification codes, confirmation links, newsletters — so you can read them online and then let the address expire, keeping your personal inbox clean.

Click Generate Email and QuickInbox creates a random address on our receiving domain and opens a private session in your browser. Emails sent to that address arrive in your inbox within seconds. Only your browser session can read them: access is tied to an HttpOnly session cookie, not to the address itself.

By default, 10 minutes from the moment you generate it. The countdown you see is display-only — the server independently checks the expiry on every request. When the inbox expires, the messages and the address mapping are deleted and all reads are rejected.

Yes. Sign-up confirmations and one-time codes sent to your QuickInbox address appear in the inbox, usually within seconds. Keep the tab open until the code arrives. Note that some services block disposable addresses — see the FAQ below.

Common causes: the sending server is slow or deferred (delivery can take a few minutes), the sender rejected the disposable address, the message went to spam on the sender's side, or your inbox already expired. Check that the address is exactly as copied and that the countdown has not reached zero, then hit Refresh Inbox.

QuickInbox requires no account and collects only the data needed to run the service. However, anyone who knows the address can also read messages sent to it, and messages are deleted when the inbox expires. Treat a QuickInbox address as public and short-lived — not as a secure mailbox.

No — and you should not. Never use a temporary inbox for banking, payments, government services, or password recovery for accounts you care about. Messages are readable by anyone with the address and are permanently deleted after expiry.

The server rejects every read request with an expired state, and the scheduled cleanup job physically deletes the stored messages and the address mapping. Nothing is recoverable afterwards — generate a new address to continue.

Not in the first version. Attachments are not stored or displayed; only the text and sanitized HTML parts of a message are kept. This keeps the service simple and reduces the risk of malicious files.

Services that want one account per person reject domains known for disposable inboxes to reduce spam and abuse. If a site refuses your address, you can try another service or use a permanent alias — we explain the trade-offs in our guide comparing temporary email and email aliases.