vs disposable mail
We get confused with services like 10 Minute Mail and Mailinator constantly, and the confusion works against everybody, so here is the difference.
Disposable mail
A public, temporary mailbox. You open a site, get an address, and anyone who knows that address can read the mail sent to it, usually with no password at all. It expires in minutes or hours.
It exists to get past a signup wall once. It is a perfectly good tool for that and we are not sniffy about it.
An alias
A private, permanent address that belongs to your account and forwards to your real mailbox. Only you receive the mail. It lasts until you delete it, which might be tomorrow or might be a decade.
It exists so you can have a durable relationship with a service without giving them your real address.
Why this matters practically
Sites block disposable domains, aggressively and by list. They are right to: those addresses are anonymous to the point of being useless for support, and they are used for abuse.
We are not a disposable provider, and we work to stay off those lists: monitoring the public blocklists, rotating shared domains when one gets listed, and enforcing sending limits so our domains do not earn a bad reputation.
If you are blocked somewhere while using one of our addresses, tell us. We treat it as a bug on our side, because it is.
Which do you want
- Get past a signup wall once, never receive mail again: disposable
- Actually use the account afterwards, receive receipts, reset a password, keep the relationship: an alias
The second case is most cases, and people reach for the first because it is the one they have heard of.
Last checked: August 2026.
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