Can I use a temporary address for any lawful purpose?

Not quite. The test is whether the use could harm someone else or degrade delivery for other users. Bulk account creation, bypassing another service's limits, and sending unsolicited mail are prohibited even though they are not criminal.

Can I automate address creation or sending?

No. Automated use consumes shared delivery capacity and the same techniques enable bulk abuse. If you have a legitimate automated need, contact the operator first rather than driving it through the public interface.

What happens if I break the acceptable use policy?

The operator may block senders, suspend inboxes, or shut down domains to stop abuse. Enforcement protects the receiving path for everyone, so it is applied at service level rather than case by case.

How do I report a message from this domain?

Use Report abuse on the message, which includes a message reference, or send the full headers of the message you received to the operator. Recipient reports are prioritised over everything else.

Where do I dispute an enforcement action?

Use the contact page and describe what happened. Include the page or inbox concerned and the time of the action so the record can be located.

Acceptable use policy

TempMails exists so that a short-lived, non-sensitive interaction can have an address that does not outlive it. That purpose defines the boundary below. The rule is not "anything not forbidden is allowed" — the test is whether the use could harm someone else or damage the service's ability to deliver mail for everyone else.

Permitted purposes

Use the service for lawful, non-sensitive, short-lived communication. In practice that includes:

Testing an email workflow you own, including deliverability, rendering, and timing.
Receiving a one-time verification code or confirmation link for a signup on a site that permits temporary addresses.
Receiving a resource from a gated form, such as a download or a sample.
Keeping a single automated notification out of your permanent mailbox.
Separating a one-off newsletter or trial signup from your everyday address.

Using the service for any of these is fine, and none of them requires you to tell us that you are doing it.

Prohibited activity

Do not use TempMails for:

Fraud and deception. Phishing, advance-fee schemes, fake invoices, or any message intended to induce someone to part with money or credentials.
Impersonation. Pretending to be a person, company, or organisation you are not, including using a display name or footer that suggests an affiliation you do not have.
Harassment. Threats, sustained unwanted contact, or targeting an individual.
Malware and credential theft. Distributing malicious links or attachments, or attempting to obtain someone else's account access.
Unsolicited bulk messaging. Using the sending feature to reach people who did not ask to hear from you.
Evading another service's safeguards. Creating accounts in bulk, defeating a ban, or circumventing a rate limit on a third-party site. That a site blocks disposable addresses is a decision it is entitled to make.
Attacking the service. Attempting to defeat rate limits or security challenges, probing for access to another person's inbox, or consuming resources in a way designed to degrade delivery for other users.
Illegal activity of any kind, or facilitating it.

Automated use

Do not automate account creation, address generation, or sending. Automated use consumes shared delivery capacity, and the tools that make it possible are exactly the tools used for bulk abuse. If you have a legitimate automated use — a test suite that needs to receive mail, for example — contact us first rather than driving it through the public interface.

Reporting and response

Use Report abuse on a message to send a report to the operator. Reports include a message reference and your explanation. The operator can block senders, suspend inboxes, and resolve reports.

Reports from recipients of a message are treated as the highest priority. If you received something abusive, fraudulent, or threatening from this domain, report it and include the full headers of the message you received — the headers carry the routing information needed to identify the sender, and the message itself is not visible to us once the inbox expires.

Protect yourself

Do not send sensitive documents to disposable addresses, and do not use them for banking, payment notifications, or password recovery. Suspicious links and attachments remain risky even when mail is displayed safely: the service renders a message, it does not judge the destination a link points to. Treat every link in a temporary inbox the way you would treat it in any other unsolicited mail.

Enforcement

The operator may block senders, suspend inboxes, or shut down domains to prevent abuse. Enforcement is not a punishment aimed at a single user; it is what keeps the receiving path trusted enough that other services continue to accept it. Consequences fall on the service as a whole when abuse goes unchecked, which is why the rules above are enforced rather than advisory.

If you believe an enforcement action was applied in error, use the contact page or write to founder@tempmails.live. The terms describe the limits of the service, and the privacy policy explains what is retained and for how long.