A privacy-first temporary inbox with an API
Venmail is our own disposable-inbox service: a working inbox in about a second with no sign-up, real-time mail, automatic OTP extraction, and a developer API.
- To a working inbox
- 1 second
- Sign-up required
- 0
- Call to fetch an OTP via API
- 1
The challenge
People testing sign-up and verification flows need a throwaway inbox instantly, and developers need to pull one-time codes programmatically.
It had to run cheaply and globally, with mail arriving in real time rather than on a refresh.
Our approach
We built the inbox on the Cloudflare edge — Workers with Email Routing and an email worker that parses MIME on arrival.
Addresses are generated on the fly with a custom TTL, and messages stream in over a live connection.
A small REST API exposes the latest message and its extracted OTP for automated flows.
The outcome
A usable inbox appears in about a second with no account.
Incoming mail shows in real time, and OTP codes are pulled out automatically.
Venmail runs today at venmail.my.id with a public developer API.
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