Your @inboxy.net addresses

Think of these as throwaway email addresses you can hand to anything — a shop, a newsletter, a free trial. Mail to them lands in your inboxy inbox. Your real email stays out of it.

What you start with

After signup you have five active @inboxy.net addresses, each one a friendly random name like quiet-otter-47@inboxy.net. They're ready to use immediately — paste them into any signup form.

• Free plan: up to 5 active addresses.
• Standard plan: up to 50 addresses. Pro plan: up to 100. Both add custom names like tax-receipts@inboxy.net.

Minting a new one

Account → Addresses → New address.

Two flavours to pick from:

• Friendly name (default) — easy to remember, e.g. quiet-otter-47.
• Opaque — 8 random characters like k7m2qx9p. Use when you don't want the address to hint at what it's for.

Give it an optional label ("nike", "tax stuff") — it shows next to the address in your inbox so you remember who it's for. A different alias per site means you'll know exactly who leaked you if it ever starts attracting spam.

Your Gmail name (optional, free)

If you signed up with a Gmail address, Account → Addresses offers your.name@inboxy.net, taken from your Gmail name. Nothing is created unless you press Claim, and you can dismiss the offer.

• Dots don't matter, as at Google: john.smith and johnsmith are the same name and both reach you.
• It doesn't count toward your address limit.
• Signed up with another email? Use Link a Gmail address: we email a one-time link to that Gmail to prove it's yours. You can link one Gmail. It's used only to prove the name, never to sign in or to receive mail.
• If you delete your account, the name stays reserved. Sign up again with the same Gmail and you can claim it back. Mail sent to it in between is dropped.
• A few names (like legal or hq) are reserved and can't be claimed.
• Signup doesn't accept addresses containing +; use the plain address.

Retiring one

If an address gets spammy, retire it.

Account → Addresses → find the row → Retire.

• New mail to the retired address vanishes silently at the door.
• Mail you've already received stays readable in your inbox.
• The name is retired forever — nobody (not even you) gets handed quiet-otter-47@inboxy.net again. Mail meant for the old you can't reach a stranger.

Working from an agent or script?

Everything above is also exposed on the API and MCP, so your agent can mint and retire on demand:

# List
curl https://api.inboxy.net/v1/addresses -H "Authorization: Bearer ik_…"

# Mint
curl -X POST https://api.inboxy.net/v1/addresses \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ik_…" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"label": "nike"}'

# Retire
curl -X DELETE https://api.inboxy.net/v1/addresses/<address_id> \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ik_…"

From an MCP-aware agent:

"Mint me a fresh inboxy address for Nike."

See Connecting an AI agent for setup.

Active vs retired, at a glance

Status	Behaviour
Active	Receives mail; in your address list by default.
Retired	New mail silently dropped (no bounce — that's deliberate, see our privacy notes). Existing mail still readable. The name never goes back into the pool.

Stuck?

support@inboxy.net.