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How to receive an OTP online
Plenty of sites want an email address purely so they can send you a code. You do not have to give them your own. Generate a temporary address, have the code sent there, and read it here — the code is found in the message and shown beside it, one click to copy.
By Bathan DevUpdated 2 min read
What an OTP is, and why sites ask for one
A one-time password is a short code, usually six digits, that proves you can read mail at the address you gave. It is valid once and expires within minutes. Sites use it to confirm an address is real before letting you in.
That is all it proves — which is why an address you will abandon works perfectly well for it. The site only needs the code to come back; it has no way to care whose mailbox it passed through.
Receiving one here
Press Generate for an address and paste it into the form asking for one. Ask the site to send its code, then come back and press Refresh.
Press Refresh, or just switch back to the tab, and the inbox is checked. When the mail is there, the code is read out of the subject or the body — including codes split across a table, and Google’s G- prefix — and shown beside the message, one click to copy.
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Get temp mailIf the code does not arrive
Give it a minute. Mail is usually near-instant but not always, so press Refresh again after a short wait.
If nothing comes, the site may have rejected the address quietly. Generate a new one in the dots style and try again. Look through the whole inbox too — a message that was not recognised as a code is still listed there to open and read.
What this cannot do
It receives email only. A code sent by SMS to a phone number will not arrive here, and no email service can receive one.
It is also not private: the address is shared, so anyone who knows it can read the codes sent to it. Never use it to receive a code that protects something worth protecting — a bank, an email account, a work login. It is for the sign-ups where the code is a formality.
Questions
Can I receive an SMS OTP here?
No. This receives email only. A code sent to a phone number by SMS cannot arrive at an email address.
How fast does the code arrive?
Usually within seconds. Returning to the tab checks the inbox, and Refresh checks it again whenever you like.
Is it safe to receive a verification code this way?
For a throwaway sign-up, yes. For anything that matters, no — the address is shared, so whoever else knows it can read the code too. Use your own email for accounts you intend to keep.