# Long term temporary email that lasts 30 days

> Long term temporary email with YelMail Premium: keep messages for 30 days, save up to 25 addresses and forward mail to your inbox. From $7 a month. See how.

Source: https://yelmail.com/long-term-temporary-email · Last updated: 2026-09-29

Free inboxes keep mail for 2 hours by design. Premium keeps every message for 30 days, saves up to 25 addresses to your account and can forward mail to your real inbox.

Get an address: open https://yelmail.com/long-term-temporary-email and the inbox is ready instantly, no sign-up.

## What is a long term temporary email?

A long term temporary email is a disposable address that keeps working for weeks instead of minutes or hours. It still keeps your real inbox private, but it holds on to messages long enough for order updates, trials and follow-ups. On YelMail Premium, mail is kept for 30 days and addresses stay reserved while you subscribe.

## How to use Long term temporary email

1. **Choose a Premium plan.** $7 a month or $69 a year, paid through Stripe. Your first payment comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
2. **Set up your addresses.** Create up to 25 inboxes with random or custom names. Each one is saved to your account, not just to one browser.
3. **Check in when it suits you.** Messages wait for 30 days. Sign in from any device to read them, or forward them to a verified personal address.

## Why does free temporary email expire after 2 hours?

Free temporary email expires after 2 hours on purpose. Short retention is what makes a free, no-account inbox sensible to hand out: there is nothing to sign in to, so the inbox has to clean up after itself.

The 2 hour window does several jobs at once:

- **Less data sits around.** Messages and attachments are deleted automatically, so an abandoned inbox does not keep collecting mail.
- **Old addresses lose their value.** An address that disappears soon is worth little to spammers and list sellers.
- **It fits the main use.** Most people need a free inbox for one code or one link, and 2 hours is plenty for that. For a quick one-off, the free [10 minute mail](https://yelmail.com/10-minute-mail) style inbox is all you need.
- **The free plan stays simple.** Short-lived mail keeps the ad-supported service easy to run for everyone.

The timer is forgiving. Each email is kept for 2 hours after it arrives, and the inbox only expires after 2 hours without activity, so it does not vanish while you are using it. But once a free inbox expires, the address and its messages cannot be recovered. When you need more time than that, Premium is the answer.

**How long mail and addresses last on each plan**

|  | Free | Premium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Each email is kept | 2 hours | 30 days |
| Address stays active | Until 2 hours of inactivity | While you subscribe |
| Where your addresses live | In the browser that created them | In your account |
| Recover an expired address | No | Not needed while subscribed |
| Addresses at once | 1 | Up to 25 |
| Forward mail to your inbox | No | Yes |
| Attachment limit | 5 MB | 25 MB |

## When do you need a temporary email that lasts?

You need a longer-lasting temporary email whenever the messages you care about arrive over days or weeks, not minutes. If the second or third email from a sender matters as much as the first, 2 hours is not enough.

Typical cases:

- **Online orders.** A confirmation today, shipping updates later in the week, a delivery notice after that.
- **Free trials.** A 14 or 30 day trial often sends its "your trial ends soon" reminder near the end.
- **Travel and events.** Booking confirmations come first, then tickets, check-in links and changes.
- **Waitlists and betas.** An invite can take weeks to arrive.
- **Price alerts and restock notices.** The email you actually want may come days after you sign up.
- **Longer QA cycles.** Test accounts that need to receive email across a whole release, not just a single run.

In each case you still do not want to hand over your personal email. A Premium address gives you the privacy of temp mail with enough time to see the whole exchange through, and you can delete any address the moment you are finished with it.

## How do 30-day retention, saved addresses and forwarding work?

With Premium, every message is kept for 30 days after it arrives, and your addresses are saved to your account and reserved while your subscription is active. Here is how the pieces fit together.

**30-day retention.** Each email and its attachments, now up to 25 MB, stay available for 30 days. After that they are deleted automatically, just like on the free plan, only on a longer clock.

**Saved addresses.** You can hold up to 25 inboxes at once. Because they belong to your account instead of one browser, clearing your browser data or switching laptops does not lock you out. Sign in and they are all there.

**Forwarding.** Verify a personal address, and YelMail can forward incoming mail to it. You keep the temporary address on sign-up forms while the messages you care about show up where you already read email.

**Custom names.** Give long-lived addresses names you will recognize, which helps once you have more than a few. Our page on [custom temp mail](https://yelmail.com/custom-temp-mail) has naming ideas.

**API access.** Developers can create inboxes and read mail from scripts using personal API keys. See the [temp mail API docs](https://yelmail.com/developers).

## Is there a temp mail that doesn't expire?

Not on YelMail, and that is intentional. Even on Premium, each email is kept for 30 days and then deleted. What lasts is the address: it stays reserved for you while your subscription is active, so you can keep receiving new mail at it month after month.

A temporary inbox that never deleted anything would simply be a second permanent inbox, with the same clutter and the same long-term exposure if it ever leaked. The value of temp mail is that things go away.

If some messages need to be kept for good, such as receipts, contracts or account details, you have two good options:

- **Forward them** to your personal inbox as they arrive, using Premium forwarding.
- **Use your real address** for that one account, and keep temporary addresses for everything else.

For most people, 30 days of retention across up to 25 addresses comfortably covers trials, orders, bookings and test accounts. You can compare both plans in full on the [pricing page](https://yelmail.com/pricing).

## Long term temporary email FAQ

### How long does temporary email last on Premium?

Each message is kept for 30 days after it arrives, then deleted automatically along with its attachments. The addresses themselves are saved to your account and stay reserved for as long as your subscription is active, so you can keep receiving new mail at them month after month.

### Can I get 30-day temp mail for free?

No. The free plan keeps mail for 2 hours, and that limit is deliberate: a no-account inbox has to clean up after itself. Thirty-day retention is part of Premium, which costs $7 a month or $69 a year and comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee on your first payment.

### What happens to my messages after 30 days?

They are deleted automatically, including any attachments, and cannot be restored. If a message matters beyond that, save the attachment, copy the details or forward it to your personal inbox before the 30 days are up. Turning on forwarding means important mail reaches you straight away.

### Is a long term temporary email still private?

Yes. Premium inboxes get the same protections as free ones: remote images and tracking pixels stay blocked until you allow them, and email HTML is sanitized, sandboxed and never allowed to run scripts. The differences are that your addresses belong to your account and Premium shows no ads.

### Will I lose my Premium addresses if I clear my browser?

No. Premium addresses are saved to your account rather than to a single browser, so you can clear your browser data, switch devices or reinstall, then sign in and find them all. Free inboxes are different: their key lives only in the browser that created them.

### Does forwarding share my real email with senders?

No. Senders write to your YelMail address, and forwarding happens on our side after the message arrives. Your personal address only becomes visible to a sender if you reply to them from it, so reply with care when privacy matters.

## Related

- [Custom temp mail: choose your own temporary email](https://yelmail.com/custom-temp-mail)
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