📧 Temporary Email

Create disposable business-grade email inboxes with full send/receive, forwarding rules, webhook notifications, and auto-expiration. Protect your real email and streamline testing workflows.

What Is Temporary Email?

Temporary Email gives you real, functional email inboxes that auto-expire after a set time. Unlike throwaway email services, these are business-grade inboxes with full send and receive capability. Perfect for:

Service signups — Register for services without exposing your real email
QA testing — Test email workflows, verification flows, and transactional emails
Privacy protection — Give out a temp address when you don't want spam
Client projects — Create a temp inbox for a project that auto-deletes after delivery
Webhook testing — Forward incoming emails to your API endpoint via webhook
One-off communications — Reply to something once without creating a permanent address

How It Works

Navigate to Temporary Email in your 25cent.cloud dashboard
Click "Create Inbox" and choose a custom name or get a random address
Set expiration time (1 hour to 30 days) and configure options
Use your inbox at [email protected]
Inbox auto-expires and all emails are permanently deleted

Pricing

1 quarter per inbox (25¢). The base creation fee covers 1 hour. Extend at any time for 1 quarter per additional 24 hours. No per-email fees, no storage charges.

Features

Feature	Description
Send & Receive	Full email functionality — send, receive, reply, and forward from your temp address
Custom Names	Choose your inbox name (e.g., `[email protected]`) or get a random one
Forwarding Rules	Auto-forward matching emails to your real inbox based on sender, subject, or content
Webhooks	POST incoming email data to your API endpoint in real-time — perfect for automation
Attachment Support	Send and receive attachments up to 25MB per email
Auto-Expiration	Inboxes and all emails are permanently purged after expiry — zero residual data

API Usage

POST /api/temp-email/inboxes
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "test-project",
  "duration": 24,
  "forwardTo": "[email protected]",
  "webhookUrl": "https://myapp.com/hooks/email"
}

Response:

{
  "inboxId": "te_xyz789",
  "address": "[email protected]",
  "expiresAt": "2026-03-01T14:00:00Z",
  "cost": 1,
  "status": "active"
}

Reading Emails

GET /api/temp-email/inboxes/te_xyz789/messages
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN

// Returns array of emails with from, to, subject, body, attachments, receivedAt

Use Cases

CI/CD pipelines — Create temp inboxes in integration tests, verify email delivery, then auto-cleanup
Freelancers — Use project-specific addresses that disappear when the project ends
Marketing teams — Test email campaigns without polluting real inboxes
Privacy-conscious users — Sign up for services without revealing your real address
Developers — Test password reset flows, verification emails, and transactional email templates

Security

All emails transmitted over TLS — encrypted in transit
Inboxes are isolated per user — no cross-account access
Complete data purge on expiry — emails, attachments, and metadata permanently deleted
No email content is logged or stored beyond the inbox lifetime
SPF/DKIM configured on the temp.25cent.cloud domain for deliverability

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