A valid email address is required when creating various accounts and registering on certain sites.
But it is not always advisable or possible to indicate your real email, and in such cases, temporary one-time email without registration may be required.
Temporary mail services generate random emails located on their server.
These boxes, depending on the “scope” of the service, can range from several tens to several thousand.
When starting to use the service, the user receives an email address on the server and login credentials.
Access is provided for different periods of time, depending on the conditions, from a single opening of a letter to several months.
After this, the passwords for the provided mailbox are reset, stop working, and the mailbox can be provided to another user with different credentials.
The functionality of such a service may differ depending on the format of work.
It can work only to receive incoming messages, or it can assume the ability to send correspondence and receive incoming messages over a short period of time.
Why is it needed?
Why can’t you indicate your real email when registering, since almost every user has one?
In what cases might a temporary dummy mailbox be needed?
There may be a number of reasons for this:
- The user has already registered on the site with his real email, but now cannot remember any backup data of his account for recovery;
- The user has been blocked from the site, for example, for violating its Rules or for some other reason, and can no longer re-register with the real address;
- An account registered to a real address on this site already exists, but another one is needed;
- After registration, many sites begin to send unnecessary information to your mailbox - account login information, message notifications, etc., and disabling this in the account settings is long and difficult, so it’s easier to create temporary mail;
- Other purposes are a prank, a surprise, confidential distribution of any information when the sender’s email address should not be recognized.
Of course, you can simply create a different mail each time on standard servers (, etc.), but this is quite complicated and inconvenient.
The process takes a lot of time, and it is inappropriate to carry out it if the mail is needed “one time”.
Advantages
The main advantages of using temporary mail services are described below:
- Saving time on registration procedures;
- There is no need to invent different credentials every time;
- Getting rid of mailings, spam and other unnecessary letters on the main mail;
- Ability to maintain confidentiality when necessary;
- Ability to create multiple accounts at once.
Although using temporary mail can be associated with a number of difficulties, it is still more advisable than using a permanent mailbox.
Flaws
However, using the service also has some disadvantages associated with the very principle of its operation, and which cannot be avoided.
These are phenomena such as:
- Since email passwords no longer work, it is impossible to recover the password from the account that was registered to it;
- Since addresses on some services are transferred from user to user when passwords are changed, when creating an account on a popular site, there is a possibility that the email you use has already been used there - in this case you will have to request an additional address;
- You will not be able to receive important news about changes to the service.
Such shortcomings, in principle, are not too critical and are not always relevant, so the benefits of such services still outweigh.
Crazymailing.com
As soon as you go through it, right on the Home page, at the top of the screen, you will find a randomly generated email address that you can use.
Above the address itself in this field is located, showing how much longer the mailbox will work.
The address obtained in this way remains valid for 10 minutes.
If there is not enough time, and you cannot accomplish everything you need in 10 minutes, find the section Need more time?
On the left side of the page and click on the +10 minutes button.
To use the adjacent +30 minutes button, immediately adding half an hour of time for using the box, you need to register on the site or log in to it using social networks.
On a blue background, just below the address field, the contents of the mailbox are located.
When you first enter the site, you see in your mail only one welcome letter from the service administration.
But if you register with this mailbox, another inbox will appear - to open it, just click on it.
The appearance of the letter is no different - it is the same as when using any other mailbox.
There are buttons at the top of the screen Mark as unread, Reply and Delete .
The service also functions normally for sending letters - on the start page, on the right, under the address field, there is a Write button.
When clicking on it, the user is redirected to the authorization form - only authorized users can send emails.
If you need to save an incoming or outgoing letter, then find the corresponding button Do you want to save the letter? on the left side of any page on the site.
After clicking on it, an input field for the real e-mail will open, to which a copy will be sent (this service is also available only to users authorized in the service).
Tempail.com
When crossing it, to Home page you'll immediately find an email address ready to use.
Click on the address and copy it. Now it is ready for use during registration, but in order for it not to stop working, the site cannot be closed - while the site is open, the email is active, but as soon as you close it, another one will be generated.
Important! An additional advantage is that in the header of the site on a blue background you can find a button. When you click on it, you will automatically receive the appropriate code corresponding to your temporary email. There is no particular point in such a service, but sometimes it can be useful and even necessary.
The disadvantage of the service is that you cannot send letters from such temporary mail. It only works to receive and view incoming messages.
Temp-mail.org
A service with a name similar to the previous one, but completely different in functionality.
To use this service, follow the algorithm:
- Find your temporary email address in the field at the very top of the start page and copy it - there is even a special button for this at the top of the page, on the left;
- The main part of the page is occupied by the field where your inbox will be displayed;
- The Refresh button in the menu on the left is needed to check the contents of the mailbox - there is no automatic update;
- The Change button involves creating any desired temporary email address - click on it to open the corresponding field, enter all the necessary data in it and click Save;
- You will be notified of a successful address change by a message on a green background that appears after clicking the Save button;
- The Delete button is used to delete a mailbox after use so that others can use it.
The main disadvantage of this service is the same as in the previous version - it is impossible to create an outgoing letter.
Mydlo.ru
Provides minimal but sufficient functionality and is easy to use.
The time it can be used is unlimited, but the page cannot be updated either - when updating, a different address is generated.
- The address itself is located in the very top field on the start page;
- By clicking on the button with the image of a tablet to the right of it, you can copy the data to paste on the site;
- The orange I don’t like button is needed to generate another address - click on it and the data in the top field will be updated;
- The field below is necessary to display inboxes - they appear automatically, there is no need to refresh the page;
- A letter is opened by clicking on it, just like in any other mail.
This service is not suitable for sending letters and does not provide any additional services at all, but, nevertheless, it is quite convenient, simple and functional.
Dropmail.me
- In field Your temporary mailbox the actual address is displayed, which can be easily copied by clicking on the image of the tablets to the right of it;
- In the Incoming mail block, which is updated automatically, all incoming correspondence will be displayed, which can be opened by clicking on it;
- There is no time limit for using the generated combination, but you cannot refresh the page or restart the site, as this will lead to the automatic generation of another email;
- Click on the button Additional drawer and another address will be automatically generated for you, and if you click on the arrow next to this button, you can also select the desired domain for it;
- The Forward button is needed so that incoming messages are copied to your real mailbox if necessary - click on the button and enter your real mail address, click on the Enable button;
- Button Access recovery helps to restore the address that you previously used, for example, when the page is suddenly refreshed - this is not very effective and depends on the load on the service, and also does not allow you to restore the contents of the mailbox, but only its address;
YOPmail.com
Its distinctive feature– creating a unique mailbox address.
To do this, find the input field in the upper left part of the page and enter the desired combination, then click on the button Check mail.
If the address is not busy, then the mail page will open for you.
On the left there is a list of incoming correspondence; the main field contains the contents of letters, which are opened by clicking on them.
At the top there is a Write button that allows you to send messages. Click on it and generate text.
This site does not provide the function of copying incoming and outgoing messages to a real mailbox.
Conclusion
All such services provide approximately the same functionality, with the exception of a number of features.
For example, a not very convenient characteristic is the limited time of using the service, as in the first case.
If you need to send a letter from a temporary address, then you need to be more careful when choosing a service, since not all sites provide this opportunity, as well as copying correspondence to a real mailbox.
When registering, sites, forums, file hosting services and some public Wi-Fi hotspots often ask you to provide an email address, however, having done this, you can soon find a lot of spam, messages about promotions and other unwanted correspondence in your email inbox.
For such cases, there are special services that allow you to create a temporary email specifically to confirm registration on any resource.
It is worth noting that a number of sites do not allow you to specify a temporary email. In this situation, you can try choosing a different email domain.
2. Guerrilla Mail
This service has existed for a relatively long time - since 2006. To use Guerrilla Mail, you do not need to provide your real mailing address, but you can create only one temporary mailbox on the service, which will be valid for an hour.
The service is easy to use and completely free. In addition, Guerrilla Mail has a separate Android application.
3. nada
This completely free service was developed by the creators of AirMail, a popular email client for Apple devices. No registration is required to create a one-time email with nada.
The service allows you to create up to 10 disposable addresses at the same time. You can create an email account yourself by choosing from 10 different domains, or use a randomly generated address.
Letters received to the address are stored for a week, after which they are deleted automatically.
4. DropMail
A simple and convenient service for creating disposable email addresses with unlimited operation time. DropMail allows you to create an unlimited number of mailboxes that will be available until the user refreshes the page.
In addition, the service has a function for forwarding letters. Registration on the site is not required.
5. Mailinator
This service allows you to create a temporary mailbox by specifying any address. Moreover, even if such an address is already taken, the service will still allow you to use it. Thus, users who indicate the same address can read all letters received at it.
The service provides a registration function that allows you to make disposable email accounts private. There are separate tariff plans for developers and corporate clients.
6. Fake Mail Generator
On Fake Mail Generator you can create a disposable email address for free, which will be valid for 24 hours. There are 10 different email domains to choose from.
The service works similarly to Mailinator, allowing you to read messages arriving at the same address.
Nowadays, an email address is a popular method of communication, the practicality and other advantages of which are difficult to overestimate. But if earlier e-mail was used exclusively for communication, today many network resources, sites, and programs allow you to activate an account or license solely by sending a control letter to an e-mail address.
At first glance it might seem that this should not be a problem. After all, what’s so difficult about entering your email in the required field? However, no one will ever guarantee that the email address entered anywhere will not be used by anyone to send unwanted emails, which are called “spam”. Of course, the prospect of receiving such correspondence by e-mail cannot please their owners. But what to do in this situation? The answer to this question is simple - your assistant will be the temporary mail that is currently open in front of you.
The main advantage of temporary mail
What is this service? This question may arise for each of you. After all, temporary mail, if you do not want to use a personal e-mail, can be registered within a few minutes and the issue will be closed. In fact, everything is not as simple as it seems. If you created your email address many years ago, you probably don’t know that today on many email services, in order to register, you need to indicate another, valid address, and on some, a mobile phone number is required, which will be used to confirm registration and restoring access.
While disposable mail works without registration. Just by going to the service page you will be able to see the email address at the top. It will represent your individual temporary e-mail, which you can specify to activate accounts on various resources and for other purposes. And at the same time, you won’t have to waste time creating a new mailbox, since you can do without registering one.
Rules for working with temporary email
Disposable mail was created by a team of developers so that anyone who urgently needs mail for 10 minutes can use it, saving their time. Everything is very simple, easy and understandable.
- By opening the site, you have already received an individual email address.
- Copy it and specify it to register an account, activate a license, or perform any other task you face.
- Your temporary mail will display all incoming emails on the main page, under the specified email address.
One-time mail works for 60 minutes. Not intended for shipping. And it is issued individually for the device from which the site is visited.
Nothing complicated! And you can always complete authorization, activation or registration without showing your personal email address to any resources on the Internet.
Enjoy! We hope you enjoy our service.
The “Anonymizer” function has appeared in the settings of the mail service of the Mail.Ru portal.
With its help, you can create a temporary email address and use it
- for on various forums and sites that do not inspire confidence,
- in coupon services,
- or in dubious, unreliable online stores,
- as well as when submitting advertisements for the sale of something (to communicate with possible buyers), etc.
Then, when the temporary e-mail is no longer needed, you can easily delete it.
Anonymizer Mail.ru is a service for creating temporary mailboxes inside your main, permanent mailbox on Mail ru.
It is a generator of temporary email addresses inside the main mail.ru mail.
How to create temporary mail.ru
You can create a one-time mailbox (in other words, temporary mail ru) after 6 steps:
1) you need to go to your mailbox mail ru official website:
2) enter your username, password,
3) in the upper right corner click on your login. A menu will open in which you need to click “Mail Settings” (2 in Fig. 1):
Rice. 1. Where are the Mail settings in the Mail.ru mailbox?
4) At the end of the “Mail Settings” menu, select the “Anonymizer” item (1 in Fig. 2):
Rice. 2. Anonymizer: Add a temporary address to Mail.ru
5) In the “Anonymizer” form that opens, click on the “Add temporary address” button (2 in Fig. 2).
6) The “Create a temporary address” window will appear (Fig. 3):
Rice. 3. Create a temporary address for your Mail ru mail
To create a temporary mail inside your Mail ru mail, all that remains is:
- 1 in Fig. 3 – agree with the proposed name for temporary mail mail.ru, or enter your address (of course, provided that such a name has not previously been occupied by other users).
- 2 in Fig. 3 – agree with the mail domain (that is, mail.ru), or click on the small triangle and select another domain from the proposed list: inbox.ru, list.ru or bk.ru.
- 3 in Fig. 3 – it is advisable, but not necessary, to write a comment for yourself so as not to forget why an e-mail was once created.
- 4 in Fig. 3 – select the folder in which incoming correspondence will be collected. By default, a folder of the same name is created (with the same name as temporary mail), but you can select a folder from others that already exist in your Mail.Ru mailbox
- 5 in Fig. 3 – enter the code from the picture. If the code is unclear or hard to see, you should click on the “I don’t see the code” link.
- 6 in Fig. 3 – click on the “Create” button.
Rice. 4. How to copy and how to delete temporary Mail ru mail.
As can be seen in Fig. 4, temporary email created – [email protected].
How to use a temporary box
Temporary address when registering on websites
- Open the site where you want to register.
- Click on the link (button) “Registration” on this site.
- Then an email input field should appear in which you can enter a temporary address. You can copy it so you don't have to enter it manually.
To do this, opposite the temporary email, click on the “Copy” button (1 in Fig. 4). After this, the temporary email will be copied to, that is, placed in the temporary memory of the computer. Please note that the “Copy” button (and the “Delete” button) appears (“pops up”) only after you move the mouse cursor over the name of the temporary mail.
Now we go to where you need to specify this temporary email - this can be a field for entering an email address, for example, when registering on some site. Place the cursor in this field and press Ctrl+V (this is to paste what was copied to the clipboard). After this, a temporary email will be placed where it is needed for registration or some other action.
Useful points
You can create many such temporary boxes. The main thing is that the user himself does not get confused in them later. We must remember that
all temporary mailboxes are accessible only through the main Mail.ru mailbox.
In other words, you can only access temporary mailboxes if you log into your main mailbox. Temporary mailboxes are accessible only using the login and password of the main mail.ru mailbox. This is roughly how we get into our house: first we go into the corridor and only then can we get into other rooms.
After the temporary mail has been created, you can go to your main mail.ru mail. There you should find a new folder (Fig. 5), which will have the same name as the temporary mail. Compare the folder name in Fig. 5 with the name of the temporary e-mail that was created earlier, in Fig. 4. It is clear that the names are the same.
You can open a letter with additional information that arrived in a new folder. It will have the following title: “You have created a temporary address. Mail.ru recommends that you read this letter.”
Rice. 5. Folder with new temporary Mail.ru mail inside the main mailbox
What are the benefits of temporary boxes? Of course, because they can be removed. In this case, the main mailbox will remain safe and sound.
How to delete temporary mail.ru mail
After deleting temporary mail, letters will stop coming, but old letters will remain in the folder.
To delete temporary mail, you need to follow the steps described above, I will repeat them here:
- you need to log into your main mail.ru mailbox by entering your main mail login and password,
- click on your login, that is, on the name of your email (Fig. 1),
- go to “Mail Settings”,
- click on “Anonymizer” (Fig. 2),
- Move the mouse cursor to the temporary mail that you want to delete. Only after this the “Copy” and “Delete” links will appear,
- click on the “Delete” link (2 in Fig. 4) opposite the temporary e-mail that is no longer needed.
Other methods for temporary emails
Often, after registering on some resource, intrusive mailings begin to arrive. Spam filters in Mail.Ru mail do not always cope with their function. The Mailru anonymizer will help compensate for this shortcoming. Although, in principle, there is nothing new in this function.
There have long been resources for creating temporary e-mails, for example:
- 10minutemail.com (more details),
- mailinator.com.
The only difference is that Mail.Ru combined temporary e-mail with the main mail service. The main mailbox can now only be used for correspondence with real people.
How to delete the main mail.ru mail
The temporary mail.ru mailbox can be deleted without much thought, that’s why it’s temporary. But with the main mail.ru mailbox, you need to think carefully and remember everything that can be connected with it: in addition to the bad, then (alas, often only after deletion) both good and valuable may be discovered there.
The fact is that after deleting the main mail.ru mail, it will be possible to restore the login (name) of this mail. But all the information that was previously stored in this mail and that was associated with this account, alas, can no longer be restored. Therefore, before deleting the main mail.ru address, it is necessary that they are linked to this account, because after deletion, all information from these projects will be lost without the possibility of its recovery.
If you have a firm decision to delete your main mailbox on mail.ru, and also have access to the mailbox (i.e. you know your mail login and password), then enter the link in the address bar of your browser:
To delete, you will need to enter your email name, password, and indicate the reason for deletion. After this, the mail.ru mailbox will be deleted along with all information and all projects that were associated with this email.
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A valid email address is required when creating various accounts and registering on certain sites.
But it is not always advisable or possible to indicate your real email, and in such cases, temporary one-time email without registration may be required.
The essence of the service
What exactly is temporary mail and how is it provided?
Temporary mail services generate random mailboxes located on their server.
These boxes, depending on the “scope” of the service, can range from several tens to several thousand.
When starting to use the service, the user receives an email address on the server and login credentials.
Access is provided for different periods of time, depending on the conditions, from a single opening of a letter to several months.
After this, the passwords for the provided mailbox are reset, stop working, and the mailbox can be provided to another user with different credentials.
The functionality of such a service may differ depending on the format of work.
It can work only to receive incoming messages, or it can assume the ability to send correspondence and receive incoming messages over a short period of time.
Why is it needed?
Why can’t you indicate your real email when registering, since almost every user has one?
In what cases might a temporary dummy mailbox be needed?
There may be a number of reasons for this:
- The user has already registered on the site with his real email, but now cannot remember any backup data of his account for recovery;
- The user has been blocked from the site, for example, for violating its Rules or for some other reason, and can no longer re-register with the real address;
- An account registered to a real address on this site already exists, but another one is needed;
- After registration, many sites begin to send unnecessary information to your mailbox - account login information, message notifications, etc., and disabling this in the account settings is long and difficult, so it’s easier to create temporary mail;
- Other purposes are a prank, a surprise, confidential distribution of any information when the sender’s email address should not be recognized.
Of course, you can simply create a different email each time on standard servers (gmail, mail, rambler, yandex, etc.), but this is quite complicated and inconvenient.
The process takes a lot of time, and it is inappropriate to carry out it if the mail is needed “one time”.
Advantages
The main advantages of using temporary mail services are described below:
- Saving time on registration procedures;
- There is no need to invent different credentials every time;
- Getting rid of mailings, spam and other unnecessary letters on the main mail;
- Ability to maintain confidentiality when necessary;
- Ability to create multiple accounts at once.
Although using temporary mail can be associated with a number of difficulties, it is still more advisable than using a permanent mailbox.
Flaws
However, using the service also has some disadvantages associated with the very principle of its operation, and which cannot be avoided.
These are phenomena such as:
- Since email passwords no longer work, it is impossible to recover the password from the account that was registered to it;
- Since addresses on some services are transferred from user to user when passwords are changed, when creating an account on a popular site, there is a possibility that the email you use has already been used there - in this case you will have to request an additional address;
- You will not be able to receive important news about changes to the service.
Such shortcomings, in principle, are not too critical and are not always relevant, so the benefits of such services still outweigh.
Crazymailing.com
As soon as you go through it, right on the Home page, at the top of the screen, you will find a randomly generated email address that you can use.
Above the address itself in this field there is a countdown timer showing how much longer the mailbox will work.
The address obtained in this way remains valid for 10 minutes.
If there is not enough time, and you cannot accomplish everything you need in 10 minutes, find the section Need more time?
On the left side of the page and click on the +10 minutes button.
To use the adjacent +30 minutes button, immediately adding half an hour of time for using the box, you need to register on the site or log in to it using social networks.
To do this, in the upper left corner of the start page, find the social network buttons under the service logo. Click on the desired button and log in to the service with your social network data (Google, Twitter, Vkontakte).
On a blue background, just below the address field, the contents of the mailbox are located.
When you first enter the site, you see in your mail only one welcome letter from the service administration.
But if you register with this mailbox, another inbox will appear - to open it, just click on it.
The appearance of the letter is no different - it is the same as when using any other mailbox.
At the top of the screen are the Mark as Unread, Reply, and Delete buttons.
The service also functions normally for sending letters - on the start page, on the right, under the address field, there is a Write button.
When clicking on it, the user is redirected to the authorization form - only authorized users can send emails.
If you need to save an incoming or outgoing letter, then find the corresponding button. Do you want to save the letter? on the left side of any page on the site.
After clicking on it, an input field for the real e-mail will open, to which a copy will be sent (this service is also available only to users authorized in the service).
Tempail.com
When crossing it, to Home page you'll immediately find an email address ready to use.
Click on the address and copy it. Now it is ready for use during registration, but in order for it not to stop working, the site cannot be closed - while the site is open, the email is active, but as soon as you close it, another one will be generated.
Important! An additional advantage is that in the site header on a blue background you can find a QR code button. When you click on it, you will automatically receive the appropriate code corresponding to your temporary email. There is no particular point in such a service, but sometimes it can be useful and even necessary.
The disadvantage of the service is that you cannot send letters from such temporary mail. It only works to receive and view incoming messages.
Temp-mail.org
A service with a name similar to the previous one, but completely different in functionality.
To use this service, follow the algorithm:
- Find your temporary email address in the field at the very top of the start page and copy it - there is even a special button for this at the top of the page, on the left;
- The main part of the page is occupied by the field where your inbox will be displayed;
- The Refresh button in the menu on the left is needed to check the contents of the mailbox - there is no automatic update;
- The Change button involves creating any desired temporary email address - click on it to open the corresponding field, enter all the necessary data in it and click Save;
- You will be notified of a successful address change by a message on a green background that appears after clicking the Save button;
- The Delete button is used to delete a mailbox after use so that others can use it.
The main disadvantage of this service is the same as in the previous version - it is impossible to create an outgoing letter.
Mydlo.ru
A simple service for generating temporary mailboxes, located at https://www.mydlo.ru/.
Provides minimal but sufficient functionality and is easy to use.
The time it can be used is unlimited, but the page cannot be updated either - when updating, a different address is generated.
- The address itself is located in the very top field on the start page;
- By clicking on the button with the image of a tablet to the right of it, you can copy the data to paste on the site;
- The orange I don’t like button is needed to generate another address - click on it and the data in the top field will be updated;
- The field below is necessary to display inboxes - they appear automatically, there is no need to refresh the page;
- A letter is opened by clicking on it, just like in any other mail.
This service is not suitable for sending letters and does not provide any additional services at all, but, nevertheless, it is quite convenient, simple and functional.
Dropmail.me
A simple and functional service is located at https://dropmail.me/ru/.
- In the field Your temporary mailbox, the actual address is displayed, which can be easily copied by clicking on the image of the tablets to the right of it;
- In the Incoming mail block, which is updated automatically, all incoming correspondence will be displayed, which can be opened by clicking on it;
- There is no time limit for using the generated combination, but you cannot refresh the page or restart the site, as this will lead to the automatic generation of another email;
- Click on the Additional mailbox button and another address will be automatically generated for you, and if you click on the arrow next to this button, you can also select the desired domain for it;
- To the right are buttons for setting up audio and visual notifications about receiving a new letter (disabling or enabling both types).
You can contact support by clicking the Having problems?
The site is convenient and multifunctional, but like many, it does not allow sending outgoing messages.
YOPmail.com
A simple service with some unique functions is located at http://www.yopmail.com/ru/.
Its distinctive feature– creating a unique mailbox address.
To do this, find the input field in the upper left part of the page and enter the desired combination, then click on the Check mail button.
If the address is not busy, then the mail page will open for you.
On the left there is a list of incoming correspondence; the main field contains the contents of letters, which are opened by clicking on them.
At the top there is a Write button that allows you to send messages. Click on it and generate text.
This site does not provide the function of copying incoming and outgoing messages to a real mailbox.
Conclusion
All such services provide approximately the same functionality, with the exception of a number of features.
For example, a not very convenient characteristic is the limited time of using the service, as in the first case.
If you need to send a letter from a temporary address, then you need to be more careful when choosing a service, since not all sites provide this opportunity, as well as copying correspondence to a real mailbox.
