Fake Email settings
Everything is behind the Settings button in the strip of actions next to the address — the same strip that holds Generate, Refresh and Recent. Open it, switch what you need. The choice is kept in your browser and applies the next time you come back.
Sound notification
Plays a short sound when a message arrives, so you do not have to watch the page. Leave the tab open in the background and come back when you hear it.
Two things are worth knowing:
- You can choose the sound — three are available, so it does not blend into every other notification you get.
- You can limit how often it fires. Unlimited, at most once a second, or at most once every ten seconds. This matters when a mailbox starts receiving a burst: without a limit, ten messages mean ten sounds.
Popup notifications
The browser shows a small window for each new message, even when this page is in a background tab. The first time you switch it on, the browser asks for permission — that prompt comes from the browser, not from us, and we never see the answer beyond “allowed” or “not allowed”.
The same rate limit applies here, and there is one extra switch: Silent, which shows the popup without the operating system's own notification sound. Useful if you have the site's sound on as well — otherwise one message makes two noises.
Second level domains
This one is easy to misread. It does not restrict what you can type — any domain from the list can be entered by hand at any time. It changes what the random address is built from.
| Switch | A random address may use |
|---|---|
| off | top-level domains only — name@example.com |
| on | those plus second-level ones — name@mail.example.com |
Turning it on widens the pool considerably, which helps when a service refuses the domain you were given: more options means less chance that all of them are on the same list.
Ask for confirmation before destructive actions
On by default. With it on, deleting a message, emptying the inbox or clearing the recent list asks first. Turn it off if you do this often and the prompt is in the way — but note that nothing here has an undo. Deleted is deleted.
Light or dark
The theme switch is separate from this panel — it sits in the top bar and has three positions: follow the system, always light, always dark.
Recent addresses is not a setting
The Recent button next to Settings shows addresses you have opened before and tabs from earlier sessions. That list is stored only on your own computer, in browser storage — it is never sent anywhere, including to us. The Clear emails and Clear sessions buttons inside it remove it for good.
Something you want that is not here
Use the Feedback link in the footer. Requests that come up more than once are the ones that get built.
Related
- Reaching your inbox without keeping the tab open — alerts when the page is not in front of you, which is the other half of the notification switches above.
- Fake email address: what it is and how to make one that works — what the address itself may contain, and why the domain is the part that matters.
- A site will not accept your fake email — no switch on this page fixes that one; here is what does.
- Privacy policy — what the settings store, and where.