About Temp Postal
We're on a mission to make digital privacy accessible to everyone through innovative temporary email solutions that protect your identity online.
Our Story
Temp Postal was born from a simple frustration: why should protecting your privacy online be so complicated? In 2023, our founders were working at various tech companies when they realized how much personal data was being collected through something as simple as email addresses.
Traditional temporary email services were either unreliable, complex, or compromised user privacy. We knew there had to be a better way - one that was fast, secure, and truly private.
Today, Temp Postal serves over 2 million users worldwide, processing millions of temporary emails while maintaining our core principle: your privacy is non-negotiable.
Our Values
These principles guide everything we do at Temp Postal
Privacy First
Your privacy isn't negotiable. We built Temp Postal with zero-knowledge architecture from day one.
Simplicity
Privacy tools should be simple. No complex setup, no learning curves - just instant protection.
Accessibility
Everyone deserves privacy protection, regardless of technical knowledge or financial means.
Community
We're building more than a service - we're fostering a community that values digital rights.
Meet Our Team
The passionate individuals building the future of digital privacy
Sarah Chen
CEO & Founder
Former privacy engineer at major tech companies. Passionate about digital privacy rights.
Marcus Rodriguez
CTO
Security expert with 15+ years in email infrastructure and cryptography.
Elena Petrov
Head of Product
UX designer turned product leader, focused on making privacy tools accessible to everyone.
How Temp Postal actually works
A privacy service is only as trustworthy as the details it is willing to publish. Here is ours.
Our mail infrastructure
Inbound mail for temppostal.com is accepted by Cloudflare Email Routing and handed to a Cloudflare Worker running at the edge. The Worker parses the message, checks that the recipient address exists and has not expired, strips executable attachments, and writes the message to our database. Nothing is relayed to a third-party mailbox and no message ever leaves our storage on its way in.
Application data lives in a managed PostgreSQL database with row-level security enabled on every table, so an inbox can only ever be read by the session or the signed-in account that created it. There are no shared or public inboxes: an address you generate is not readable by someone who guesses its name. The web app is served from a global CDN, and both the site and the API are TLS-only.
Outbound mail - account confirmations, password resets and billing receipts - is the only email we send, and it is transactional. We do not operate a marketing list against inboxes created on the service.
Retention and deletion policy
Every inbox carries an explicit expiry timestamp set when it is created: 48 hours on the free tier, 7 days on Premium and 30 days on Business. When an inbox expires, the address and every message stored under it are deleted by a scheduled purge - expiry is enforced by the system, not left to a manual cleanup. You can also delete any inbox and its contents immediately from the dashboard.
We store what is needed to deliver the service and nothing more: the address, the messages sent to it while it is alive, and - for signed-in accounts - the email address you registered with plus your billing status. We do not sell data, we do not rent inbox contents to training pipelines, and we do not build advertising profiles from your mail. Payment details never reach our servers at all; checkout is handled by Paddle as merchant of record, so card data is processed entirely on their infrastructure.
Full details, including your rights under GDPR and how to request account deletion, are in our privacy policy and terms of service.
How we are funded
Temp Postal is funded by its paid plans - Premium at $4.99 per month and Business at $49 per month - and nothing else. There are no investors setting growth targets that conflict with the privacy promise, no data brokerage, and no affiliate arrangements that decide what we recommend. The free tier is subsidised by paying customers, which is why it is deliberately generous on usefulness (48-hour retention, full message view) and limited on scale (inbox count and API access).
That funding model is the reason the retention windows above can be short and absolute. A service that monetises inbox contents has a reason to keep your mail; a service that monetises subscriptions has a reason to delete it on schedule.
Limits we are upfront about
- Temporary inboxes receive mail only - you cannot send from them, which also means the service cannot be used to spam anyone.
- Some sites block known disposable-email domains. When that happens, a temporary address is not the right tool for that signup.
- Never use a temporary inbox for an account you need to recover later: banking, payroll, cloud storage or anything with billing attached. Expiry is permanent.
- Deleted means deleted. Once an inbox expires there is no archive, no backup copy and no support request that can bring the messages back.
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Our Mission
To democratize digital privacy by providing accessible, reliable, and truly private temporary email services. We believe everyone should have the tools to protect their personal information online, regardless of their technical expertise or financial resources.
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Quick answer
Who runs Temp Postal, and how is it funded?
- Independent, subscription-funded: no data sale, no list rental, no ad targeting on inbox contents
- Inbound mail is TLS-received, AES-256 encrypted at rest and purged on a fixed timer
- Editorial content is written by named authors and reviewed before publication
- Disposable inboxes are deliberately not confidential — we say so rather than overclaiming
What we actually operate
Temp Postal runs its own mail-receiving infrastructure rather than reselling another provider's inboxes. Inbound messages are accepted over TLS, written to encrypted storage, indexed only for the lifetime of the inbox that owns them, and deleted when that inbox expires. There is no archival copy retained for analytics, and no export of message bodies to third-party processors.
Addresses are generated per session and scoped to that session. A visitor's inbox is not shared with another visitor, and a recycled local part is never re-issued with the previous message history attached. When the expiry timer fires, the inbox and its contents go together.
The service is designed for the case where a durable identity is the wrong tool: signup gates, download walls, trial accounts, QA fixtures and vendor evaluations. It is deliberately not designed to be a mailbox you rely on for account recovery, and the product copy says that in plain terms rather than implying otherwise.
How it is funded, and why that matters
Free inboxes are paid for by Premium and Business subscriptions. That funding model is the reason the retention and privacy posture can stay simple: there is no commercial incentive to keep messages longer, to profile the addresses that receive them, or to sell audience data derived from inbox contents.
Many free disposable-mail services monetise the opposite way — advertising against inbox contents, selling traffic data, or quietly retaining messages for resale. Those models create a structural conflict with the thing users came for. Ours does not, which is why the retention window can be a hard limit rather than a marketing claim.
Paid tiers add capability, not privacy. Premium unlocks extended storage and custom domains; Business adds API access, higher rate limits and support. The encryption, retention and no-sale commitments apply identically to a free session and a Business account.
Editorial standards for everything we publish
Guides, glossary entries and blog posts on this site carry a named author and, for compliance or security topics, a named reviewer. Statistics are attributed to their primary source — the Verizon DBIR, the IBM Cost of a Data Breach report, the FBI IC3 report, HHS OCR's breach portal, or the relevant regulator's own guidance — rather than to secondary aggregators.
Where a claim is contested or jurisdiction-dependent, we say so instead of flattening it into a single confident sentence. Where our own product is not the right answer — regulated records, financial accounts, anything needing recovery — the content says to use a durable mailbox.
Pages are dated by the last substantive content revision, not by the build. If an article says it was updated in a given month, the body actually changed then. That is also what the sitemap advertises, so the dates a search engine sees match the dates a reader sees.
Frequently asked questions
Does Temp Postal read or sell the mail sent to disposable inboxes?
No. Messages are stored encrypted for the lifetime of the inbox and are not sold, rented, profiled or used for advertising. The service is funded by paid subscriptions, so there is no revenue model that depends on inbox contents.
How long are messages kept?
Free inboxes retain messages for a fixed window — 48 hours by default — after which the inbox and every message in it are permanently purged. Paid plans extend the window; they do not change what happens at the end of it.
Is a Temp Postal inbox confidential?
No, and we would rather be direct about it. A disposable inbox trades secrecy for instant, registration-free access: anyone who knows the address can read it. It protects your identity from the sender, not the message from third parties. For confidential mail, use an authenticated mailbox.
Can Temp Postal be used for business or regulated workflows?
For vendor evaluation, QA fixtures and marketing testing, yes — that is what the Business tier and API exist for. For anything that falls under a records-retention or patient/customer-confidentiality obligation, no. Those records belong in a governed mailbox with retention controls.
Who writes the content on this site?
Named authors, with a named reviewer on compliance and security topics. Sources are cited to primary publications, and pages carry the date their content last materially changed rather than an automatic build date.