Receive Mail on Your Own Domain
If you own a domain, you can point it at this service and receive mail for any address on it — shop@yourdomain.com, test1@yourdomain.com, whatever you type — right on this site, without creating a single mailbox. It takes one DNS record and costs nothing on our side.
Read this first: what you are agreeing to
- Inboxes on your domain are public, just like ours. There are no passwords. Anyone who opens an address on your domain on this site can read the mail sent to it. Use your domain for sign-ups and tests, never for private mail.
- All mail for the domain comes here. The MX record decides where a domain's mail goes. If the domain already receives real mail somewhere else, pointing it here moves all of it — and makes it readable by anyone. Use a separate domain that nobody writes to for anything important.
- Receive only. You cannot send mail from these addresses.
- You stay in charge of the domain. We do not register, renew or manage it. If it expires, mail stops arriving.
Step 1 — Add one MX record
Open the DNS settings of your domain (the section is usually called «DNS», «DNS zone» or «Zone editor») and add a record with these values:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | MX |
| Name / Host | @ (or leave empty — it means the domain itself) |
| Priority | 1 |
| Value / Mail server | generator-email.com. |
| TTL | default is fine |
Note the dot at the end of generator-email.com. — most DNS panels expect it. A few panels add it themselves and reject it when you type it; in that case enter the value without the dot. Remove any other MX records of the domain, otherwise part of the mail may still go to the old server.
Step 2 — Wait for DNS to update
A new record usually starts working within minutes, but it can take up to a day before every sender sees it. You can check the record yourself:
dig MX yourdomain.com +shortOn Windows:
nslookup -type=mx yourdomain.comThe answer should name generator-email.com with priority 1.
Step 3 — Open your domain here
Type your domain after the site address:
https://generator-email.com/yourdomain.comThe page works exactly like it does with our shared domains: type any username before @yourdomain.com, copy the address, and watch mail arrive in real time. Sound and desktop notifications, several tabs with different addresses, the Recent Mail panel — all the same.
Why bother with your own domain
- It stays yours. Our shared domains change over time; your domain stays available here for as long as you keep it registered.
- Fewer rejections. Sites that refuse well-known throwaway domains usually have never seen yours.
- Unlimited addresses. Every sign-up can get its own address on the same domain — handy for testing, or for seeing which site shares your address.
When you choose a domain to buy, look at the renewal price, not only the first-year offer: cheap first years often renew at several times the price. A short name with a single dot, like example.com, tends to be accepted more readily by sign-up forms than a long subdomain.
If mail does not arrive
- Check the record: type
MX, valuegenerator-email.com., priority1. - Try the value with and without the final dot.
- Make sure no other MX records are left on the domain.
- Give DNS up to a day, especially if the domain was just registered or its old records had a long TTL.
- Send yourself a test message from any ordinary mailbox and watch this page.
How to stop
Delete the MX record (or point it back to your real mail provider). Once DNS updates, mail for your domain stops coming here. Messages already received are removed automatically after the usual storage period.