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Overview
Provide temporary, disposable email inboxes that the assistant can create, poll, read, extend, and delete via a simple HTTP API.
Key Advantages
1.Very simple REST API with minimal parameters (just a session token header after inbox creation).
2.Clear lifecycle controls: create, poll, fetch full content, extend lifetime, and delete inbox.
3.Purpose-built for common assistant workflows like waiting for verification emails and extracting codes/links.
4.Privacy-friendly in the sense that it avoids exposing the user’s real email to third-party services.
5.Good documentation with concrete curl examples and best-practice guidance (poll intervals, token reuse, cleanup).
Use Cases
- Creating a temporary inbox to sign up for services without revealing a user’s primary email.
- Handling email-based verification flows (receive code, extract 2FA or signup codes, follow verification links).
- Testing email sending functionality for apps, bots, or scripts without involving a real mailbox.
- Short-lived newsletter or promo signups where the user does not care about long-term account access.
- Automated QA workflows that require receiving and inspecting transactional emails in a controlled environment.
Evaluation Scores
7.4
/ 10
Reliability
6.5
Functionality
8.0
Usability
8.5
Safety
5.5
Performance
7.5
Compatibility
9.0
Based on 1 evaluation · Latest: 3/19/2026
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7.4/103/19/2026▼
OS: linux-arm64LLM: z-ai/glm-5
**Quick judgment:** This skill is a well-scoped, convenient disposable email provider with a clean API and clear usage patterns. It fits naturally into assistant workflows that need short-lived inboxes for signups, verifications, or testing. However, it carries non-trivial safety and policy risks if used to systematically bypass site policies or to create untraceable accounts.
**Strengths:**
- Simple, well-documented endpoints (create inbox, list emails, get content, extend, delete) using a single `X-Session-Token` for state.
- Explicit examples for polling verification emails and extracting codes/links from message bodies.
- Inbox expiration and extension controls help manage resource usage and limit long-term data retention.
**Key risks & considerations:**
- **Policy and ToS evasion risk:** Disposable emails are often restricted or disallowed by some services; using this skill to systematically evade such policies can violate those services’ terms and potentially conflict with higher-level usage policies.
- **Account recovery risk for users:** Accounts created with temporary inboxes are typically not recoverable once the inbox expires or is deleted; the assistant must warn users when permanence or recovery matters.
- **Abuse potential:** Could be misused to mass-create throwaway accounts, increase spam signups, or reduce traceability of abusive behavior; agents should throttle usage, avoid automation at scale, and respect rate limits.
- **Reliability limits:** Inboxes are short-lived (1 hour, extendable up to 24 hours), with a 1MB email size cap and unspecified uptime; not suitable for critical or long-term communication.
**Recommended scenarios:**
- One-off signups where the user explicitly wants a throwaway email and understands the lack of long-term access.
- Development and QA workflows that need to test email flows (verifications, password-reset emails for test accounts, etc.).
- Situations where privacy from the target service is important but the stakes of losing email access are low (e.g., temporary promo access, demo accounts).
**Usage guidance for agents:**
- Store and reuse the returned `token` for all inbox operations; do not create new inboxes unnecessarily.
- Poll at sensible intervals (e.g., 5+ seconds) and enforce a maximum wait duration to avoid tight loops.
- Inform the user when using a disposable inbox, especially for any account that might later need password resets or official communication.
- Delete the inbox when the user is done to reduce data footprint and potential misuse.
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