A temporary email right from your terminal written in bash
tempmail is a command line utility written in bash that allows you to create a temporary email address
and receive emails to the temporary email address. It uses 1secmail's API
to receive emails.
By default w3m is used to render the HTML emails on the terminal.
But if you prefer another text based web browser or would rather view the email in a GUI web browser such as Firefox, simply
use the --browser or -b argument followed by the command needed to launch the web browser of your choice.
w3mcurljq
# Download the tempmail file and make it executable
$ curl -L "https://git.io/tempmail" > tempmail && chmod +x tempmail
# Then move it somewhere in your $PATH. Here is an example:
$ mv tempmail ~/bin/ || sudo mv tempmail /bin/$ tempmail --help
tempmail
tempmail -h | -v | -l | -d
tempmail -g [ADDRESS]
tempmail [-t | -b BROWSER] -r | ID
When called with one argument, tempmail
shows the email message with specified ID.
-b, --browser BROWSER
Specify BROWSER (default: w3m) that is used to render the HTML of
the email
-l, --list
List all the received emails
-d, --directory
Set a custom directory to store everything related to 'tempmail'
-g, --generate [ADDRESS]
Generate a new email address, either the specified ADDRESS, or
randomly create one
-h, --help
Show help
-r, --recent
View the most recent email message
-t, --text
View the email as raw text, where all the HTML tags are removed.
Without this option, HTML is used.
-v, --version
Show versionCreate random email
$ tempmail --generate
gibrish@1secmail.netCreate custom email
$ tempmail --generate mycustomemail@1secmail.com
custom@1secmail.comView the inbox
$ tempmail
[ Inbox for custom@1secmail.com ]
77229944 username@example.com Test EmailView the email
$ tempmail 77229944View the most recent email
$ tempmail -rView emails as pure text
$ tempmail -t 77229944
To: custom@1secmail.com
From: username@example.com
Subject: Greetings from Temp Mail
Hello Temp Mail service user.
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logo.pngThis script is heavily inspired by Mitch Weaver's 1secmail script