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Everything we know, in open access

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Last updated : 2026-10-17 08:14 UTC License : CC-BY 4.0 JSON · CSV
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Overview

Cumulative counters since service launch, never decremented, even when emails are auto-deleted at 7 days. Represent total historical activity.

2 297 922
Mails received · total
115 709
Unique active inboxes
10+
Top senders tracked
73768.4MB
Volume processed · total
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Top 10 | who sends the most to disposable inboxes

Most frequent sender domains since launch. Historical cumulative counter, a domain remains in this top even if all its mails were auto-deleted.

#Sender domainMails received
1 facebookmail.com
718 183
2 mail.instagram.com
176 992
3 redditmail.com
106 051
4 reddit.com
79 869
5 account.wise.com
76 534
6 rollercoin.com
63 543
7 mail.privy.io
57 625
8 info.alibabacloud.com
37 300
9 email.openai.com
36 807
10 info-news.mcdonalds.fr
36 159
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Hourly activity (UTC)

At what time of day emails arrive, since launch. The cumulative temporal pattern reveals spammers' and automated campaigns' habits.

Hourly pattern (all-time cumulative)
Peak : 22h UTC · 169 489
169489 127117 84744 42372 0 00h 03h 06h 09h 12h 15h 18h 21h 169489
Hover bars to see values 2 297 922 total
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Weekly activity

Weekday vs weekend pattern since launch. Human sign-ups typically concentrate on weekdays, automated spam is less discriminating.

Weekly pattern (all-time cumulative)
Peak : Thu · 360 255
360255 270191 180128 90064 0 Mon 327903 Tue 337020 Wed 334028 Thu 360255 Fri 348508 Sat 306347 Sun 283861
Hover bars to see values 2 297 922 total
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Size distribution

The average size of an email received on a disposable inbox gives hints about its content: short confirmation, HTML newsletter, or heavy message with images.

small
494 501
21.5%
medium
1 462 279
63.6%
large
327 596
14.3%
huge
12 016
0.5%
giant
1 530
0.1%
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Currently online · real disk state

Exact mirror of emails physically present on the server right now. Updated on every arrival and every deletion (manual or auto-cleanup at 7 days). If you're reading this page now, that's what mail123 actually contains.

217 433
Mails currently online
3603
Unique domains · online
7609.8MB
Volume · online
17h UTC
Hourly peak · online
#Sender domain · currentMails received
1 account.wise.com
60 730
2 facebookmail.com
33 281
3 marketplace.ritchiebros.com
31 097
4 e.rbauction.com
27 148
5 withmoxie.com
7 022
Hourly pattern · current state
Peak : 17h UTC · 14 244
14244 10683 7122 3561 0 00h 03h 06h 09h 12h 15h 18h 21h 14244
Hover bars to see values 231 565 total
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What the numbers reveal

Editorial reading of patterns. The numbers are raw, but they tell something about how the internet really uses disposable email.

Disposable email, main use: verification

Received mails are overwhelmingly confirmation and activation emails. Small, automated, short. Humans sign up, verify, leave. The service is used for what it is: an anti-spam airlock.

Hourly peaks expose the marketers

Daily activity peak falls around 22h UTC. No coincidence: that's the typical trigger time for automated email campaigns across Europe and North America.

Sender concentration

A handful of domains account for the majority of traffic. Big players (Google, Microsoft, SaaS platforms) dominate the sender list, reflecting their dominant position on online sign-ups.

The service keeps its promise: everything vanishes

All emails older than a few days are automatically erased. The counters above represent a rolling window, never a historical cumulative. It's intentional, less stored data = less risk.

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Methodology

How we count. How we don't identify. So you can judge the value of this data.

  • 2-database architecture: historical vs present Sections 01-05: historical DB. Incremented on every incoming mail, NEVER decremented. Represents cumulative arrival activity since launch.

    Section 06: live DB. Exact mirror of disk state, incremented on arrival, decremented on every deletion (manual, auto-cleanup, admin). Represents real state right now (mails ≤ 7 days old, per our automatic deletion policy).
  • Immediate aggregation, no PII The sender domain (part after @) is extracted, counted, then the mail itself remains linked only to the temporary inbox. No cross-reference IP ↔ content ↔ recipient is kept.
  • Hours in UTC Hourly activity is measured in UTC to stay internationally comparable, and avoid the complexity of timezones and daylight saving time.
  • What we do NOT measure User IP, geolocation, browser fingerprint, email content, keywords, reading behavior, open rates. No profiling metrics.
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