15 Minute Mail

15 Minute Mail is a free disposable email service at 15minutemail.com. When you open the site there's a random email address already generated with a 15 minute countdown timer visible on screen. Copy the address, use it wherever you need, and check the inbox for incoming messages. When the timer runs out, the address and all messages are permanently wiped from the server. The 15 minute window was a deliberate choice. We looked at what people actually use throwaway email for and timed it. Verification emails from most platforms arrive in under a minute. Password reset links come through in seconds. Discount codes appear the moment you submit the form. Forum confirmation emails are near instant. The actual task takes about 90 seconds. The other 13 and a half minutes are buffer so you never feel like you're racing the clock. Some temporary email services give you 5 minutes, which sounds fine until an email takes 3 minutes to arrive because the sender has a queue. Then you're refreshing the page hoping it shows up before your address disappears. Other services give you an hour, but that means the inbox sits around collecting marketing follow ups and reminder emails from the service you just signed up for. Fifteen minutes is long enough that nothing feels rushed and short enough that the address doesn't stick around accumulating junk. If you do need more time for whatever reason, there's an extend button. Hit it and the timer resets. But most people never touch it. We built 15minutemail.com because the internet runs on a broken exchange where you trade your email address for access to basically anything. Free trials that follow up with "your trial is ending" emails for three months. Content locked behind forms that you'll read once and never come back to. Airport and hotel Wi-Fi that won't let you connect until you give them an email. Discount popups that add you to a list the instant you submit. Forum registrations for a question you'll ask once. Each of those signups puts your real address in another company's database. The 2024 Verizon DBIR found over 30 percent of breaches involved stolen credentials. Every one of those databases is a potential breach. When the email on file is a temporary one that stopped existing 14 minutes after it was created, the leaked credentials don't lead anywhere useful. The service works in any browser on any device. No app to install, no account to create, no personal data collected. We also built browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Opera. The extensions live in your toolbar and give you instant access to a disposable inbox without opening a new tab. They include OTP detection that automatically highlights verification codes in incoming emails, one click copy to clipboard, QR codes for sharing the address with your phone, and browser notifications when new mail arrives. For developers, 15minutemail.com is useful for testing email flows in staging environments. Each browser tab gives you a separate address with its own inbox, so you can run multiple signup tests at the same time without conflicts. The 15 minute window is usually more than enough for a single test cycle, and the address cleans itself up when you're done. Students use it heavily. Every semester brings a new round of signups for tools, platforms, and trial accounts. Most of those tools start emailing you the moment the trial expires and don't stop for months. A disposable address handles the signup and verification, and the follow up emails have nowhere to land. Shoppers use it for discount codes. The "enter your email for 10% off" popup works with a 15 minute address. You get the code, use it, and the store's marketing emails bounce after the timer runs out. The blog at 15minutemail.com/blog covers disposable email use cases, email privacy, and platform specific guides. Topics include using temp mail with ChatGPT, Discord, Gemini, Spotify, and various AI tools. Also comparisons with other temporary email services and guides for developers doing email deliverability testing. The site supports 20 languages. The inbox auto refreshes. The timer counts down on screen so you always know where you stand. And when it hits zero, everything is gone.