A list of test email addresses
Generates as many addresses as you need, in your browser. By default they sit at domains that are reserved by standard and belong to nobody — so nothing sent to them can reach a person, ever.
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Do not invent domains that look plausible.
test@mycompanytest.com is somebody's real domain often enough to matter, and everything your form sends goes to a stranger who never asked for it. That is why the reserved names above are the default: they remove the entire category of accident, at no cost.What these addresses can and cannot do
| Task | Do these work? | What to use instead |
|---|---|---|
| Filling a test database | yes — this is what they are for | — |
| Testing that a form validates addresses | yes | — |
| Load-testing a sign-up flow | yes, and safest | — |
| Receiving a confirmation code | no: nothing can reach them | a real mailbox from the front page |
| Registering on a website | no | same — one address at a time |
| Many working addresses at once | no, deliberately | your own domain — then every name on it works |
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Why we do not hand out working addresses in bulk. A list of live fake email addresses is a mass-registration tool, and its cost does not land on whoever downloads it; it lands on the domains, which go onto block-lists within weeks. After that the ordinary user who wants one confirmation code cannot get one. Receiving stays useful precisely because it is not automated.
If you need addresses that really receive
Attach a domain of your own: one MX record, and then every name on that domain works, as many as you like, with no list to download and no shared reputation to inherit. The exact values are here, and the checker will confirm it took effect.
Selecting “my own domain” above generates the list against it. Those addresses work only if the domain points here, which is the one thing to verify before relying on them.
Related
- Gmail Washer — if your uniqueness check compares raw strings, one person can register many times. Normalise first.
- Fake email address: what it is and how to make one that works — the difference between a string that looks like an address and a mailbox that receives.
- Add new fake email domain name — when you need addresses that genuinely work, in any number.