Mailinator

A disposable email service with public inboxes and paid private domains for email and SMS testing.

FreemiumProprietaryWeb
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About Mailinator

Mailinator offers public inboxes that anyone can open to receive throwaway email, which is useful for sign-ups you do not want tied to your real address. Public inboxes are readable by anyone who knows the name, so they are not for anything private.

Its main business is email and SMS workflow testing for developers and QA teams. Paid subscriptions add a private testing domain with nearly unlimited addresses, an API, webhooks, and support for testing 2FA codes, sign-ups and password resets from Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or Puppeteer.

Strengths

  • Public inboxes need no registration
  • API and webhooks for automated tests
  • Covers both email and SMS workflows
  • Works with common browser test frameworks

Limitations

  • Public inboxes can be read by anyone
  • Testing features require a paid plan

Details

Pricing
FreemiumPublic inboxes are free; private domains and testing features need a paid subscription with a free trial.
License
Proprietary
Developer
Mailinator
Platforms
Web
How it runs
Web application, Hosted service
Account
Not required
Works offline
No
Best suited for
Throwaway sign-ups and automated email or SMS testing
Last verified
Added
Provenance
Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.

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Software that can replace Mailinator for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.

  • Guerrilla Mail

    Web service that gives you a disposable email address instantly, with no signup.

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    Guerrilla Mail gives an instant disposable address with a choice of domains and can send as well as receive, but offers no SMS testing workflows.

  • 10 Minute Mail

    Free temporary email address that stops receiving mail after ten minutes.

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    10 Minute Mail provides a free address that stops receiving mail after ten minutes, with no API or testing features and no paid private domains.

  • 33Mail

    Disposable email forwarder offering unlimited free aliases.

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    33Mail forwards unlimited free aliases on its shared subdomain to your real inbox rather than offering public inboxes readable by anyone.

Mailinator as an alternative

Listings that name Mailinator as an alternative.

  • Mailpit

    An email testing tool that catches outgoing messages over SMTP and shows them in a web interface.

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    Mailinator is a hosted service with public inboxes and paid private domains for email and SMS testing, instead of a self-hosted SMTP catcher you run locally.

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