What is a disposable email address?

A disposable (or temporary) email is a short-lived address that forwards or receives mail for a limited time. It's useful for sign-ups, verifications, and testing — anywhere you don't want to give out your real address.

How long does my address last?

Each address is valid for 15 minutes from the moment it's generated. After that, a fresh address is issued automatically. You can also click 'New address' at any time to rotate manually.

Can I receive verification codes here?

Yes — that's a common use case. Open the inbox, click Refresh, and the latest verification message will appear. Read the code, then move on. Don't use it for accounts you care about — when the address expires you lose access.

Are my messages private?

Yes. The interface stores your address and inbox in your browser's local storage only. We don't link the address to an account, and we don't log who reads what.

Can I send email from my temporary address?

No. 15 Minutes Email Monkey is receive-only. It's designed for sign-ups, verifications, and testing — not for replying.

Why shouldn't I use this for important accounts?

Because the address expires after 15 minutes. If a service later sends a password reset, billing notice, or login alert, it will arrive at an inbox you can no longer access.

What's a middle ground?

Email aliases (Hide My Email, SimpleLogin, Fastmail masked addresses) give you per-service addresses that still forward to your real inbox. Use them when you want long-term mail but with isolation per service.

Temporary Email vs Personal Email: When to Use Which

Lifetime

Personal email lasts as long as you keep the account — years or decades. Temporary email lasts minutes. That single difference decides almost every other trade-off.

Identity and recoverability

Personal email is your identity online. Lose access to it and you lose access to most of your other accounts. Temporary email is anonymous by design and can't be recovered — and that's a feature, not a bug, when the use case is one-off.

Deliverability

Some services explicitly block known disposable domains. If a sign-up rejects your temporary address, that service has decided it only wants persistent users — fall back to a personal address or an alias.

A simple rule

Use personal email for anything you want to keep — banking, work, anything with billing or important alerts. Use temporary email for everything else: trials, downloads, one-off verifications, throwaway sign-ups.

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