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Ten minutes from the moment you generate it, and the +10 min button tops it back up if you need longer. When the countdown reaches zero, the address and every message it received are deleted.

Yes — press +10 min next to the countdown for a fresh ten minutes. You can keep going up to an hour in total, then the button retires: an hour is the ceiling on purpose, because "temporary" is the product.

Once an address has expired it's gone and there's nothing to recover, so extend before the clock runs out rather than after.

Please don't — this is the one thing worth being careful about. Addresses live on domains we register and then let lapse rather than renewing forever. Once a domain expires, anyone can pick it up and start receiving mail sent to it, and that would include password reset emails for any account still pointed at one of our addresses.

For a throwaway signup that's irrelevant: you've long since stopped caring. For anything you intend to keep, use your real address, or a permanent alias from a service like addy.io, which gives you a forwarding address you actually control.

Yes — that's what Burn now does. The address and everything in it go immediately, and anything sent afterwards is refused rather than quietly discarded. It's for when you're finished early and would rather not leave an address sitting there collecting whatever comes next.

Nothing. Free as in free pizza. There's no account, no premium tier, and nothing to upsell — this started as a learning project and costs very little to keep running.

Nothing is written down. Messages exist only while the countdown is running and are gone the moment it stops — we couldn't recover them afterwards if we wanted to, and nothing about what you receive reaches our logs.

No. Trackers work by embedding a tiny remote image that loads when you open the message; we block those by default, so nothing is fetched and nothing is reported back. When a message contains any, a bar appears above it with a Load images button — that's your call, per message. Messages with no remote images show no bar, because there's nothing to unblock.

Links get the same treatment: identifiers whose only job is tying a click back to you are stripped before the link reaches your screen. The destination itself is never touched, and anything genuinely ambiguous is left alone rather than risk breaking a working link.

They're never stored. When a message arrives we note the filename, size and type and then throw the file away, so you'll see something like 📎 invoice.pdf (48 KB) — not stored and at least know it was there.

The reason is simple: a free service that will hold any file for you and hand out a link becomes a malware host inside a week. Images embedded in the message itself are dropped the same way — you'll see a count of them rather than the pictures. If you actually need the file, have it sent somewhere built to keep it.

Two common reasons: some services refuse to send to disposable email domains, and anything sent after the ten-minute window bounces. If the countdown is still running, give it a minute or two — most verification emails arrive within seconds.

No. This is receive-only and deliberately so — there's no reply button and no way to compose. A domain that sends mail gets judged on how it sends, and this one's whole job is to keep receiving reliably. An address that expires in minutes couldn't hold a conversation anyway: by the time anyone answered, it would be gone and the reply would bounce.

If you want an address that isn't your real one but can still send and receive, what you're after is a forwarding alias. addy.io and similar services give you one you control, can reply from, and can switch off whenever you like.

No — addresses are random on purpose. The address itself is the only key to the inbox, so a guessable one would let strangers read your mail.