Temporary email for developers: testing signups without a real inbox
Faster QA for verification flows, invite emails, and onboarding
Any feature that sends mail — signup confirmation, password reset, magic links, invites — needs testing again and again. Creating a real mailbox for every test run is slow and messy. A disposable inbox fixes both.
What you can test
- Signup and email-confirmation flows.
- Password reset and "verify it is you" links.
- Transactional templates: layout, links, plain-text fallbacks.
- Rate limits and resend behaviour.
A quick workflow
Generate a fresh address for the run, use it in the form, and read the incoming message from the Temporary Email inbox — no setup, no cleanup between runs. Need a clean slate? Generate another address.
Small tips
Keep the inbox open while you trigger the email; most confirmations land within seconds. Test the code path that handles a missing email too — real users mistype addresses more than you expect. And remember the address is public, so never send production secrets through it.
For end-to-end flows that must survive a restart, pair disposable addresses with a seeded fixture account; use the temp inbox for the throwaway checks in between.
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