Updated · Volt Ghost team
These pages cover real jobs people bring to a disposable inbox. Each one is specific: how long the mail usually takes, what Volt Ghost will and will not store, and when a lasting address or alias is the safer choice. None of them is a guide to getting around a site's blocks, opening extra accounts, or repeating a free trial.
Where to start
Every Volt Ghost inbox starts as a 24 hour email and can be extended once, free, as far as 7 days. If you are signing into an app as a throwaway test user, use disposable email for app testing. If you are inspecting the mail your own product sends, use temp email for testing instead. A one-off, low-stakes trial sign-up is on temp email for free trials; if you will keep or pay for the product, use a lasting address. To reopen an inbox you already created, see how to recover temp mail (the link works only while that inbox is still active). For the jobs a throwaway address should not do, start with when not to use temp mail.