Real emails are a liability. Stop using them.

Today, TrashMail.dev is pitching a simple idea: if you build or test software, your personal inbox shouldn’t be part of the job.

Every time you sign up for “just one trial”. you trade your address for spam, tracking, and a mess you’ll never clean up. It gets worse. The minute you automate signup tests with a real inbox, your pipeline depends on a human account that can get rate-limited, flagged, or stuffed with junk.

TrashMail.dev attacks that problem with disposable mailboxes you can use from a web UI or a REST API - no signup required to start.

What you actually get

You create a temporary address, receive messages, and move on. That’s the core loop.

But the part developers care about is the “plumbing”:

REST API access for pulling inbox messages into test suites and scripts
Spam scoring / detection so you can filter noise instead of parsing garbage
A clean web interface when you just need to eyeball an email
Fast updates (the paid plans add auto-refresh)

But there’s a catch: not every plan does everything.

Plans that match real use

TrashMail.dev splits pricing by how serious you are:

Free ($0/mo): 1 mailbox, 24-hour lifetime, web UI only, no attachments
Pro ($4.99/mo): 10 mailboxes, 7-day lifetime, API access, auto-refresh every 10s
Enterprise ($29.99/mo): 100 mailboxes, 30-day lifetime, API + webhooks, priority support

Why does this matter?

Because “temp email” tools usually fail the minute you try to scale them into automation. The API tier (and webhooks on Enterprise) turns this from a one-off burner inbox into something you can wire into CI, QA, onboarding tests, and support workflows.

The best fit: builders, testers, and privacy-first users

If you ship software, you need repeatable email verification, password reset tests, and invite flows. If you care about privacy, you need a buffer between you and every random site that asks for an email “to continue”. TrashMail.dev sits in that gap.

Use it when the inbox matters, but the identity doesn’t.

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