Temp email
A temp email that doesn’t expire
Temp mail solves the signup and then takes every recovery path with it — the password reset, the device check, the re-verification after a breach. A persona inbox gives you the same distance from your real address without the timer.
3 personas, each with a working inbox
Disposability is doing two jobs, and you only wanted one
Temp mail bundles together not wanting the account linked to you and not wanting the account. The first applies to nearly everything you sign up for. The second applies to very little.
Day one
The address works. The code arrives, the account is created, and nothing suggests a problem — or the signup is refused outright, because the domain is on a public disposable list that any site can consume for free.
Day ten
The mailbox expires. Still nothing appears to break: you are logged in, and the account behaves exactly as it did. The dependency is invisible precisely because it is dormant.
Day three hundred
A device check, a forced reset, a change of terms. Every one of those routes through the mailbox, and the mailbox is gone. The account is not locked so much as orphaned.
Scored on what you find out later
Every approach here handles a one-off signup code. They diverge on the questions that only come up once the account matters.
| Property | Temp mail | Plus-addressing | Alias service | Persona inbox |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works for a one-off signup code | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Address still receives mail long after the signup | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hides your real address from the service | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Two accounts cannot be joined by the address | Yes | No | Partly | Yes |
| Inbox is private rather than open to whoever guesses it | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Not a domain that exists to hand out throwaway inboxes | No | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Mail is deleted on your schedule, not the provider's | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Comes with the login and the TOTP seed attached | No | No | No | Yes |
A dash means it depends on how the service is set up. Alias services are a genuine step forward for ordinary personal use; their limit is that most are built as a funnel into one real inbox, which is the wrong shape when the identities are meant to be separate.
An inbox that belongs to something
The address is not the product on its own. It comes attached to a persona, which is what stops thirty compartments from becoming thirty things to check.
01
Create a persona
A name, a country, and a region. Persona Kit fills in an address, a date of birth, a phone format, and a device profile whose timezone and language match the place you picked.
02
Give it an inbox
Its own address on a Persona Kit domain, receiving real mail with no expiry. Or point it at an address you already watch and have its mail forwarded there instead.
03
Read it in one place
Mail across every persona is readable from a single view, with search across all of them, so the tenth persona does not add a tenth inbox to your routine.
Common questions
- Is this a temp mail service?
- No, and the difference is the point. A temp mail address is designed to stop existing, which is what makes it useless for anything you intend to keep. A persona inbox gives you the same separation from your real address without the timer: it is a working address that keeps receiving mail for as long as you keep using the persona.
- Does the address expire?
- There is no timer on it, which is the difference that matters — an address you are using does not expire, and nothing counts down while you use it. The one exception is abandonment: on the free plan, an address is reclaimed after 365 days in which nothing at all happened — the persona was never opened, no mail arrived, and you never signed in. Any one of those resets the clock, and we email you 30 days beforehand. Even then nothing is deleted: the persona and its history stay, and reactivating it brings the address back. Pro has no idle clock at all for as long as you're subscribed. On the free plan individual messages are removed after 7 days while the address itself keeps working; on Pro, messages are kept until you delete them.
- Can I receive verification codes and password resets?
- Yes. The inbox receives real mail, so signup codes, password resets, receipts, and device confirmations all arrive. This is the part temp mail gets wrong later rather than immediately — the first code arrives fine, and the password reset eighteen months on has nowhere to land.
- Is temp mail safe to use?
- For a code you need in the next sixty seconds, on an account you will never return to, containing nothing you would mind a stranger reading — yes. Beyond that, most public temp mail inboxes have no password and are readable by anyone who knows or guesses the address, and the mail is stored in plain text by a provider you have no relationship with.
- Why do websites block temp mail?
- Three layers, only one of which announces itself. Public disposable-domain lists are free to consume, so known temp mail domains are rejected outright. Newer domains get caught by their age and mail history instead. The layer that matters is silent: many sites accept the signup and quietly score the account as low-trust, which surfaces later as extra verification, lower limits, or faster suspension.
- Can a website still block a Persona Kit address?
- It can — no provider can promise otherwise, and any claim to the contrary is worth distrusting. What is different is the shape of the address: it sits on a normal mail domain that sends and receives like any other, rather than on a domain whose purpose is handing out anonymous throwaway inboxes, so it does not carry the signal that the disposable-domain lists are built to catch.
- Is it free?
- Yes, with a signup. The free plan covers 3 personas, each with its own working inbox and 7 days of message history. Pro removes the persona limit and keeps mail permanently.
- What happens to the mail when I delete a persona?
- It goes with the persona. That is the property a collection of third-party throwaway mailboxes cannot give you: those expire on somebody else's schedule, and whatever passed through them was handled by an intermediary you cannot ask about afterwards.
The longer version
Three pieces on where temp mail holds up and where it stops.
Start with 3 personas
Each one gets a working address that keeps receiving mail for as long as you keep it. 7 days of message history on the free plan; Pro keeps it until you delete it.