Here are 5 free open source disposable email address services. These services provide you a free temporary email address along with an inbox that you can use to receive emails from anywhere. Here you can choose a desired name for your inbox in combination with the domain name of the service. And then you can start receiving emails. These services can instantly receive emails for you with attachments. And some of these websites even let you download the received email as EML file. Some of these websites are very advanced as well as they give you an RSS feed for the received emails.
Temporary email is one of the best options to fight against spam. Also, you can use that email address of few sites that requires you to sign up. If you don’t want to give them your original email address then you can use the disposable email from any of the following services. However, the email address that these services give you will not work on sites like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter or any other popular site. In some of the services the temporary email inbox will remain persistent. While in some of them, the inbox will be removed after a certain period of time.
In similar context, once I wrote an article about email forwarding services. Well, the difference between the two is that the email forwarding services do not give you an email inbox. They just receive an email and forward that to your actual email address. But here I will mention some free services which are open source and give you a temporary email address along with a mailbox. And being open source, you can host these on your server if you have some technical knowledge and a registered domain name.
5 Free Open Source Disposable Email Address Services:
Disposeamail
Disposeamail is one of the oldest, free, and open source disposable email service that you can use. It lets you create an email with a desired username and then you can start receiving emails in your dedicated email inbox. And the best part is that you can generate a RSS feed URL for your temporary inbox and see all emails in any RSS reader. While seeing any emails that you have received there, you can choose two modes. It allows you to see the incoming email in HTML mode and in plain text mode along with all the attachments.
Just reach the homepage of this service using the above link and then create a temporary inbox. After that, you will receive all the emails in that. You can switch to the different views to see the incoming emails and the corresponding attachments. Or, you can copy the RSS URL of your inbox then you can use that in any RSS reader software or Android app. If you are interested in its source code, then you can find that on GitHub and access it for free.
InboxKitten
InboxKitten lets you create a free temporary email address and offers you a mailbox as well. The web interface of this service is very simple as well. Just create a disposable email address and start receiving the emails. However, the hosted version of this website is not meant for durable usage. It will delete all the emails after several hours. To get the most out of it, you will have to host it on your own server. There is some technical knowledge required to set it up. You can find more details on its GitHub page.
Just access it using the above URL and then create a temporary email inbox for you. Also, you can let it choose a default address and then you can distribute that to anyone from whom you want to receive emails or sign up for any online service. You’ll see all the emails on its web interface. Just keep refreshing to see new email and with the attachments.
BhadooMail
BhadooMail is another free open source disposable email address service for you to use. Here it automatically creates a disposable mailbox for you that you can use to receive emails. Currently, it is hosted on three different servers. And you can choose any server to access it and then start receiving emails in the temporary mailbox that it creates for you.
The disposable email address that it creates is fixed; you cannot customize it. The emails that you receive on the web interface of this website can be downloaded as EML files on your PC. You can find the source code of the website here and there is one click install version of this website as well that you can host on Heroku.
Just reach the homepage of the website using the above link. It will automatically generate a temporary email address for you. You can then share that email id with anyone to receive emails. Next, you will see all the emails on its interface after receiving them. You can see the attachments in them and you can download them as EML files.
Please, no spam
Please, no spam is a simple website that gives you a temporary email address along with an inbox. As you land on its homepage, you can create a disposable email address for you. After that, you can distribute that email to anyone to start receiving emails. Here while creating an email address, you are free to willingly choose a username for your inbox. But the domain name, “spamlessmail.org” will be fixed.
There is a very simple interface where you will see the emails that you have received. Its full source with installation instructions is available on GitHub and then you can have a look on that as well. Just use the above link to reach its homepage and then create a disposable email address for you. After that, just start receiving the emails in the inbox. You just have to frequently refresh the web page to see new incoming emails.
Burner.kiwi
Burner.kiwi is the last free and open source disposable email address service in my list for you to use. You can use it in the same way as any other website in this list. Here it automatically generates a temporary email inbox that you can use for receiving emails from any person or service. However, the temporary email id that it creates for you remains alive for 24 hours only. And there is an explicit option in it to delete your email box anytime you want. It shows you the HTML email body and you can analyze all the emails that you have received in it.
Go to its homepage using the above link and it will generate a temporary email and a temporary inbox for you. You can start receiving emails in that or do whatever you want. There is a countdown as well that you can see to track how much time you have until it deletes your email inbox. But if you are a developer then you can host it on your own server using its source code and customize the expiry time.
Final thoughts
These are the best free disposable email address services that you can use easily. They allow you to easily create a temporary email id with a temporary email inbox that you can use to receive emails from others. There are some other extra features in some of these like generating RSS feed from the disposable emails, exporting emails as EML files, etc. All the services that I have mentioned above are open source and you can use their source code to either host them on your own server. Or, you can take part in their development.
