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A disposable email address that receives real mail — for signups, verification codes, and download links you would rather not hand your own inbox to. No account, no password, and it is free.
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A temporary email address — also called a disposable, throwaway, or burner address — is an inbox you use in place of your real one and then abandon. You give it to a site that demands an email before it will show you anything, collect the confirmation link or verification code, and walk away. Nothing is tied to your name, and nothing follows you afterwards.
Geek Mails gives you one instantly. There is no registration, no password, and no email address to confirm first, which is the usual absurdity of signing up for a service that exists to help you avoid signing up.
The address you are handed is a variation of a real Gmail mailbox, built from Gmail's own handling of dots and +tags — one mailbox also receives mail sent to your.na.me+8fk2p9@gmail.com. A background worker fetches new mail over IMAP, matches each recipient back to the visitor it was issued to, and shows you only yours.
The full mechanism is written up here, including what happens to a message between arriving and appearing on your screen.
Sites reject disposable addresses by checking the domain after the @ against public blocklists of throwaway-mail providers. Services that run their own domains lose that race constantly — a domain works until it is discovered, then stops.
Because your address here is on gmail.com, that check passes. No blocklist can include Gmail without breaking most of its own users. This is not a promise that every form will accept it: a site can reject any address it likes, and some specifically refuse addresses containing a +. Here is how the detection works.
The service is receive-only. You cannot send, reply to, or forward mail from an address issued here — deliberately, because a free anonymous service that can send mail becomes a spam cannon and gets blocklisted within a week.
It is also not private from us. Mail is stored in readable form and the people who operate the service can read it through an administrative console. We say so here rather than advertising anonymity, because a temporary-mail service that implies otherwise is misleading you. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored, for how long, and who else is involved.
There is no countdown. Your address is bound to a signed cookie in this browser that lasts a year, and neither the address nor its mail expires on a timer — which matters when a confirmation email turns up a day late rather than in ten minutes.
The cost of that design is that the cookie is the only thing linking you to your inbox. Clear your cookies, switch browsers, or use a private window and the address is gone from your side, with no way for anyone to give it back.
Never for anything you would mind losing or having read. No banking, payments, government identity, tax, medical, insurance, or employment mail. Never as a recovery address or a second factor for an account that matters to you.
A disposable address makes the account behind it disposable too. If being locked out would hurt, use a real mailbox — that is the whole rule, and this guide covers how to decide.
Straight answers, including the unflattering ones, on the frequently asked questions page: