The Ultimate Disposable Email Provider List (2017 update)

Martin Brinkmann
May 31, 2012
Updated • Jun 19, 2017
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Back in 2007 I re-published a list of 20 temporary email services which proved to be useful to a lot of people. As time passed by, some of the services mentioned in the list stopped working, either because they have been pulled by their developers, or changed their business model.

I was reminded of this by some readers who commented on the recently published article on how to use disposable email services like a professional.

Today, I'm publishing an updated list of disposable email providers and programs that you can use for that purpose.

Keep in mind though that availability may change at any point in time after the guide has been posted, and that I have not included any commercial services.

The Ultimate Disposable Email Provider List 2017

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The first table lists the service's name, whether it can be used without registration, if it supports SSL, and if it supports mail forwarding.

The following table lists information on the lifespan of emails on the service's servers, whether deletion and alternative domains are supported, and if there are other features worth of note.

Service Unrestricted Registration SSL Forward
10 Minute Mail yes no yes no
20 Minute Mail yes optional no optional
33Email no yes yes yes
AirMail yes no no no
E4ward no yes yes yes
Easy Trash Mail no email address no yes
Fake Mail Generator yes no no no
FilzMail yes no no no
Gish Puppy no yes no yes
Guerrillamail yes no yes yes
Inbox Alias no yes no yes
Incognito Mail yes no no no
Jetable no email address no yes
Mailcatch yes no no yes
Mailinator yes no yes no
Mailnesia yes no no no
My Trash Mail no optional no optional
Now My Mail yes no no no
Spam Gourmet no yes yes yes
Spamex no yes yes yes
Tempo Email no email address no yes
Trashmail no email address yes yes
Trashmail.ws yes no no no
Yopmail yes no no manual
Service Lifespan Deletion Alternate Domains Other
10 Minute Mail 10 minutes no no
20 Minute Mail 20 minutes no no RSS
33Email unknown block no custom domains, premium
AirMail 24 hours yes no
E4ward unknown no no
Easy Trash Mail varies no no
Fake Mail Generator 24hours no yes
FilzMail 24 hours yes no RSS
Gish Puppy unknown yes no
Guerrillamail 1 hour yes no Compose, Android app
Inbox Alias no end date block no Send Email
Incognito Mail 60 minutes yes no RSS
Jetable up to 1 month no no
Mailcatch varies yes no RSS, premium
Mailinator few hours yes yes RSS, premium
Mailnesia 2 month yes yes RSS
My Trash Mail 30 days yes sometimes RSS
Now My Mail 1 hour yes no
Spam Gourmet x messages yes no
Spamex no end date yes no not free
Tempo Email 1 month no no
Trashmail up to 1 month yes yes premium
Trashmail.ws 24 hours yes no RSS
Yopmail 8 days yes yes

Unrestricted Services

These disposable email services can be used right away, without registration or the revealing of one of your legit email addresses.

  • 10 Minute Mail - Create throwaway email addresses on the fly that last for ten minutes before they expire.
  • 20 Minute Mail - This provider can create an instant disposable email address for you, or forward email to your own address after registration.
  • Air Mail - The service supports multiple domain names which is always good when it comes to temporary email services. You can only generate random names though, and all messages are run through a proxy to block your IP address from being tracked by the sender.
  • FilzMail - Generate a free random email address or select a custom one, and use it for 24 hours before it expires again.
  • Guerrillamail - Creates temporary email addresses on the fly that get automatically deleted after a certain amount of time.
  • Incognito Email - Create a random email address on the fly, supports RSS.
  • Koszmail - Create temporary email addresses on the fly.
  • Mailcatch - Select a random email alias that you want to use and check emails on the service's website. Supports email forwarding.
  • Mailinator - A very popular service that supports features that many other disposable email services do not. It ships with hundreds of alternate domains, of which one is displayed on the main page. Interesting features include the ability to access mails via POP3 from an email client or email provider like Gmail, and to subscribe to RSS feeds for mail inboxes.
  • Mailnesia - Another popular service that you can use to create an unlimited number of email aliases with. Emails can be deleted, and alternative domains are available.
  • Mint Email - You are assigned a random address whenever you visit the site. Mails that are sent to the address are automatically displayed on the main page of the service. Comes with a bookmarklet for extra convenience.
  • My Trash Mail - Create instantly available email addresses, or private accounts that only you have access to. Supports RSS feed and email forwarding.
  • Thrashmail.ws - Seems to use the same script that Email The uses.
  • Yopmail - Free choice in creating a temporary email address. Yopmail makes available alternate domains that you can use to register on sites where yopmail.com email addresses are banned.

Expired Services

  • Dead Address - Create a random email address and check its mailbox right on the site.
  • Dispostable - A free service. Just select any address ending with dispostable.com and check emails on the site. Or, use the generator on the site to generate a random address for you. Display captcha before messages are loaded. Messages can be deleted or downloaded as EML files.
  • Email The - A free disposable email provider that you can use to get a temporary email address of your choice. Emails expire automatically after 24 hours, and the service allows you in that time to read and reply to emails.
  • NoClickEmail - Creates a temporary email address automatically when you visit the page for the first time.
  • Spam Spot - Displays all email addresses send to random spamspot email addresses on the frontpage which may have severe privacy implications.
  • Spamavert - Create on the fly email addresses, and read them on the Spamavert website or in your RSS reader.
  • Spamfree24 - Create on-the-fly email addresses. Emails are stored until the service runs out of space, at which point the oldest emails get deleted first to free up storage.
  • Temp Email - You first need to create a temp email address, and then switch to the check page to check the inbox.

Email Address Required

These services require you to enter a working email address where all temporary emails are forwarded to.

  • Easy Trash Mail - Create a temporary email address for a period of 15 minutes to 1 month, and have it redirect all emails to a real email account.
  • Jetable - Create a temporary email address and forward all mail it receives to your original account.
  • TrashMail.net - Supports SSL and requires you to enter your real email address.  You can select between multiple domain names, the number of forwards and the life span of the temporary email. Paid plus service available.

Expired Services

  • Mail Expire - Create an email alias with a lifespan of up to 3 months.
  • Melt Mail - Enter your email address to forward a temporary email address that the provider creates for you for up to 24 hours.
  • Spambox - Enter your email address and the desired life time of the temporary email (up to one year) to have mails forwarded in that time to your real email address.
  • Tempomail - Emails created have a lifespan of up to one month.

Free Sign-up Services

It is necessary to create an account before any of the services in this group can be used. This usually involves adding at least one legit email address to the account.

  • 33Mail - Create aliases on the fly which are then forwarded to your original email address. Limited to 10 Megabyte of monthly bandwidth.
  • E4ward - Lets you redirect the temporary email address to your real one. Free guest account plan is limited to 50 Megabytes of monthly bandwidth.
  • GishPuppy - Sign up to receive access to proxy email addresses that you can use to register on the Internet. Emails are then forwarded to the real email account.
  • Inbox Alias - This is one of the few services that lets you send emails from your aliases. This may be handy if you need to reply to an email, for instance to subscribe to a newsletter or contact customer support.
  • Spamex - A paid service with all the bells and whistles one would expect.
  • Spamgourmet - You need to create an account first, and associate an email address with it that you want to protect.  Spamgourmet will then forward email addresses that it receives to the protected account based on parameters that users can specify on the fly.

Expired Services

  • Mail Null -  Once you have set up an account all mails send to the temporary email address will be forwarded to the real email address.

Browser Extensions

Add-ons and extensions improve how you create and access disposable emails. Here is a small selection of extensions that you may find useful.

  • Bloody Vikings for Firefox. Supports ten email providers that you can switch between easily.
  • Spam Control for Firefox. Supports multiple different providers, including Spam Gourmet and Temporary Inbox, and full control over which addresses are used on the Internet.
  • Many disposable email service providers have created add-ons for Firefox for their individual service.  This includes Mail Catch, Tempomail or Email Sensei. A search on the official Mozilla Add-ons website will reveal additional service-specific add-ons.
  • Chrome users find many service-specific extensions for their browser in the Chrome Web Store. To name a few:  33Mail, Trashmail, Guerrillamail or Yopmail

Alternatives

Disposable email services are not the only options that you have to hide your email addresses when signing-up for services on the Internet. You can naturally create a second account at Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or other email providers to use that account for all registrations on the Internet. It is usually possible to either forward all messages to another inbox, or create filters so that only select messages are forwarded automatically.

Updates

  • 2.6.2012 - Three new services have been added to the list and the Excel spreadsheet.
  • 19.2.2014 - Added new services, removed one that was not available anymore.
  • 19.6.2017 -- Updated the list of services and extensions, updated the spreadsheet and added it to the article directly.
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Comments

  1. JMGG said on January 19, 2012 at 8:25 am
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    You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?

    1. BalaC said on January 19, 2012 at 9:42 am
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      I think its thunderbird

    2. Martin Brinkmann said on January 19, 2012 at 10:15 am
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      It is Mozilla Thunderbird.

  2. Salaam said on September 24, 2012 at 9:52 pm
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    Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.

  3. Claud said on December 19, 2012 at 2:08 am
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    If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.

    1. Lynda said on February 12, 2013 at 3:37 pm
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      THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!

    2. Chad said on November 20, 2018 at 4:24 pm
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      Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…

    3. Ivan X said on January 21, 2021 at 4:50 pm
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      Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.

  4. Andrew said on October 26, 2013 at 7:06 am
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    This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)

  5. Charles said on December 7, 2013 at 7:23 pm
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    Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.

  6. garth said on November 7, 2014 at 7:13 pm
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    You are a god – thank you!

  7. Faisal said on February 9, 2015 at 10:09 am
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    thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)

  8. Simon said on March 24, 2015 at 11:36 pm
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    Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers

  9. Olu said on April 14, 2015 at 1:35 pm
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    Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
    Thank you

  10. Coenig said on July 23, 2015 at 7:36 am
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    Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)

  11. Fali said on January 20, 2016 at 4:19 pm
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    Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.

    1. MIki said on January 10, 2019 at 11:54 am
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      I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!

  12. Christina said on January 20, 2016 at 6:14 pm
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    Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007

  13. Oz said on July 22, 2016 at 3:20 pm
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    Great tip! Thanks!

  14. Tracy said on September 1, 2016 at 4:48 pm
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    Worked for me, too – thank you!!!

  15. shawn said on September 9, 2016 at 10:25 am
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    It’s Worked for me, too
    thank you very much!

  16. Jari said on October 31, 2016 at 11:53 am
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    I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!

  17. Michel H said on November 30, 2016 at 11:08 pm
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    Thank you so much. Solved!
    Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
    Thank you again. M

  18. Ziad Bitar said on January 9, 2017 at 2:00 am
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    This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.

    Thanks.

  19. Anonymous said on February 15, 2017 at 5:24 pm
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    Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.

  20. Rochelle said on March 6, 2017 at 11:59 am
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    Thank you, this worked !!!!

  21. anom1234 said on May 20, 2018 at 11:20 pm
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    Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!

  22. JC said on October 12, 2020 at 2:14 pm
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    Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!

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