A temporary email right from your terminal

tmpmail tmpmail is a command line utility that allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address. It uses 1secmail's API to receive the emails.

Requirements

• w3m
• curl
• jq

Usage

usage: tmpmail [-h] [--generate] [--browser BROWSER] [--recent] ID

optional arguments:
-h, --help           Show this help message
    --version        Print version
-g, --generate       Generate a new email address
-r, --recent         View the most recent email
-t, --text           View the email as raw text, where all the HTML tags are removed
-b, --browser        Change the browser that is used to render the HTML of the email (default: w3m)

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Examples

View the inbox

$ tmpmail
[ Inbox for [email protected] ]

83414443   [email protected]   Test Email

View the email

$ tmpmail 83414443

View the most recent email

$ tmpmail -r

View emails as pure text

$ tmpmail -t 83414443
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: Test Email

Hello World

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