Why this email address never expires
Does this address expire?
No. There is no countdown, no deletion date and no inactivity rule. An address created today still opens in a year, with every message it received in between. Mail is not deleted to save space, and an inbox is not cleared because you stopped visiting.
Why most free addresses do expire
Deleting everything after ten minutes is cheap: no storage bill, no backups, no responsibility. It also makes the address useless the moment you need it a second time — to log back into the account you made with it, or to re-read a receipt.
This site takes the other side of that trade: keep the mail, pay for the storage, and let people come back. That is why the tool asks for nothing at sign-up but keeps working months later.
What "kept" means in practice
- Every message that has arrived is still in the inbox, in order.
- Attachments are kept with the message.
- The inbox reopens with the address alone — see opening your inbox again later.
- Nothing is removed on a schedule by anyone.
What could still take an address away
Honesty matters more than a clean promise, so here are the real cases:
- A domain is withdrawn. Addresses live on mail domains this site owns. If one is retired, addresses on it stop receiving new mail. Existing mail stays readable to the team, and the site says plainly when a domain is not available.
- Abuse. An address used to attack a service can be switched off.
- The service itself. No website can promise it will exist forever. If this one ever shut down, the honest thing is to say so in advance rather than pretend otherwise.
None of those is a countdown, and none of them is triggered by you simply not visiting.
Should you use it as your main address?
What happens to very old mail?
Nothing. It stays. There is no archive tier, no compression that loses attachments, and no quiet clean-up of messages older than a year. A message from the first day an address existed opens exactly like one from this morning.
Does an unused address get recycled?
No. Once an address has been issued it is never handed to somebody else, even if it is never used again. That is a safety rule as much as a storage one: recycling an address would hand a stranger the sign-ups, receipts and reset links of whoever had it before.
What this costs you
Nothing, and there is no upsell. The site is funded by clearly-labelled banner slots, not by charging for the inbox and not by selling anything about you — see what this site stores.
No — and not because of expiry. It only receives mail, and anyone with the address can read the inbox. Use it for sign-ups, codes, downloads and newsletters; keep a real account for anything that holds money or identity. See using an address for sign-ups for where the line sits.