10MinuteMail is a secure temporary email service. This means that it lets you have a private email address, that anyone can send mail to. The email and the address both self-destruct in 10 minute, so you don't have to worry about SPAM or anything like that.
The most common reason to use a temporary email service like 10MinuteMail, is if you are forced to give an email address to a website you don't fully trust. Many websites force you to register in order to see content. Many of those websites will then either send you SPAM for years, or even worse, sell your email address to large scale SPAM operations. 10MinuteMail allows you to easily give an email address that won't exist in 10 minutes, so there's no risk of SPAM. If the website makes you verify the email address by sending you a link you have to click on, to your email, then you can read the email right here on www.10minutemail.com and click on the link. You can also reply to email, as some sites require a reply. You can forward the email to your personal account if there's some information you need to save.
Nope! The idea of 10MinuteMail is to be as fast and simple as possible. Just hit the site and you have a private secure address ready and waiting for you. You don't need to do ANYTHING!
Unlike many similar temporary email services, 10MinuteMail is built around privacy and security. You get a private unique email address that no one else gets. You are the only person who can see that email's inbox. No one else can see your email. Period.
After your email address expires, all of your email is deleted, and the address itself stops working a minute later.
If the email you are waiting for still hasn't arrived, you can click on the link that says Give me 10 More Minutes, which will reset the countdown timer.
If you trust the site, then it's probably easiest to use your real email address. If it's an IMPORTANT account, that you might need to send a password reset email for, you shouldn't use 10MinuteMail. Many people have lost accounts when they forgot the password, and had left their account email as a long expired 10MinuteMail address.
I'm sorry but I can't. The emails are never saved and I never have access to them. They are truly temporary!
It's PRETTY secure... Most email, by the nature of the whole email system, is sent un-encrypted, and may go through many servers between it's sender and it's recipient. So email isn't a super secure way to communicate, period. You can read more about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_privacy. If you want really secure email you need to encrypt the emails using PGP/GPG. You can read about that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy. You shouldn't use 10MinuteMail to do anything illegal. Period. But it's safe from most prying eyes!