Protect your real address
Give a temporary address to a short-lived workflow instead of exposing your personal inbox.
Burner email guide
Create a burner email inbox for short-lived use.
A burner email helps you receive verification messages without exposing your personal address. Mailfab gives you a browser-scoped guest inbox for quick receive-only work, with an upgrade path when you need API keys or longer-lived workflows.
Short-lived by design
Guest inboxes use short expiration windows, so the mailbox does not become a permanent identity.
Receive-only guest flow
The guest inbox is for receiving mail quickly. API keys, sending, and webhooks belong to signed-in workflows.
Definition
What is a burner email?
A burner email is a temporary address used for a specific task, such as receiving a verification code or testing a signup flow. It reduces exposure of your real email address but should not be treated as permanent account recovery infrastructure.
- Use it when the mailbox only needs to receive short-lived messages.
- Avoid using it for banking, billing, or accounts you need to recover later.
- Create a new temporary inbox when a new workflow needs its own address.
Mailfab fit
Mailfab keeps the burner workflow private to your browser session.
Classic public disposable mail sites often make inbox discovery feel shared. Mailfab guest inboxes are scoped to the browser session that created them, with a clear path to authenticated mailboxes when teams need more control.
- Guest inboxes do not require a personal email address.
- The inbox is not presented as a public directory of mailboxes.
- Signed-in users can move into API, CLI, webhook, sending, and sharing workflows.