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About MailOnce

Temporary email, built around the moment you actually need it.

MailOnce is a focused temporary-email service for short-lived messages, verification codes and confirmation links. It exists to give people a practical buffer between a one-off online task and their primary inbox.

Why MailOnce exists

Many online actions ask for an email address long before they have earned a place in your main inbox. A download, a product trial, a quick verification or a test flow can turn into long-term exposure. MailOnce is being built for that gap: receive what you need, keep the interaction separate, and let the temporary inbox reach the end of its useful life.

What guides the product

1

Useful before impressive

Features should shorten a real task or make a risky step easier to understand. Decorative complexity is not the goal.

2

Privacy needs boundaries

A temporary inbox should make its lifecycle understandable. MailOnce separates availability, expiry and backend cleanup instead of pretending they are the same event.

3

Security claims need evidence

Product-security pages are tied to implemented controls. MailOnce avoids promising protections that the system does not actually enforce.

Built by an independent developer

MailOnce is created and maintained by one independent developer. The public GitHub profile is linked here for anyone who wants more context about the developer and the work behind the project.

View the developer on GitHub

See how the product works

The knowledge center follows the real inbox journey—from creating an address and receiving a message to verification, device linking and expiry.

Explore How MailOnce Works