Hi, thanks a lot for tmpmail. It's a breeze to use. 😉

Perhaps we could pass an argument to the generation function in order to access an inbox for an email we created in the past? let's say, a login for a forum

tmpmail --generate foobar
[ Inbox for [email protected] ] 

At the moment I am editing the /tmp/tmpmail/email_address file to set it up.
I appreciate its good practice to keep those usernames random and unidentifiable but it's just in case you need to recover a password for a service or get any timely notification.

Sent myself an email with the subject text containing the char "ê".

./tmpmail
[ Inbox for [email protected] ]

column: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character

The email is then unreadable as well.

If you only include those especial characters in the email body then i can be read

./tmpmail -t -r
column: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: aaaee

aaa?eeeeeee

where the ?='ê'

I keep having this errors, never had this in previous versions.
Any help please?

/usr/local/bin/tmpmail: line 198: [: : integer expression expected
/usr/local/bin/tmpmail: line 206: [: : integer expression expected

Thanks in advance.

I think that I can make improvements to the code that processes the arguments and options, both in terms of clarity/brevity as well as robustness (e.g. error checking for optional arguments). I did a code change earlier that changed the syntax of the command, which was declined. Before I do another change, I want to double check on the current syntax and semantics of the command. This is my interpretation of how the command currently (or is supposed to) works. Is it accurate? Note that this is the output of a manpage that I wrote, and following manpage conventions, the brackets indicate optional and the pipe indicates xor.

NAME
     tmpmail — temporary mail

SYNOPSIS
     tmpmail
     tmpmail -h | --version
     tmpmail -g [ADDRESS]
     tmpmail [-t | -b BROWSER] -r | ID

OPTIONS
     -b | --browser BROWSER
             Specify BROWSER (default: w3m) that is used to render the HTML of
             the email

     -g | --generate [ADDRESS]
             Generate a new email address, either the specified ADDRESS, or
             randomly create one

     -h | --help
             Show help

     -r | --recent
             View the most recent email message

     -t | --text
             View the email as raw text, where all the HTML tags are removed
             (default: html)

     --version
             Show version

ARGUMENTS
     When called with no option and no argument, tmpmail lists the messages in
     the inbox and their numeric IDs.  When called with one argument, tmpmail
     shows the email message with specified ID.

Should be

TMPMAIL_DIR="/tmp/tmpmail"

# TMPMAIL_EMAIL_ADDRESS is where we store the temporary email address 
# that gets generated. This prevents the user from providing  
# the email address everytime they run tmpmail 
TMPMAIL_EMAIL_ADDRESS="$TMPMAIL_DIR/email_address"
TMPMAIL_HTML_EMAIL="$TMPMAIL_DIR/tmpmail.html"

Hey! I packaged tmpmail for nixpkgs a while back, but just noticed that you also update this project more often and even release versions.
Unfortunately I cannot seem to find the appropriate tags for each version, which would make packaging - updating and maintaing the package a lot easier in nixpkgs

Cheers

Currently, for copy the email address, it needs to be done manually. That is,
Run tmpmail then select and copy.

But it'd be quite helpful if an option could copy the address to clipboard by xclip on X and wl-clipboard on Wayland.

Like -c or --copy-adress

Thanks (:

Would it not be useful to generate an address, and paste it into the clipboard with a flag?

I tried it with tmpmail -g | xclip but it doens't oddly seem to work. Perhaps mpmail -g -cas extra flag to paste into a clipboard (with-c` flag)?

I'm currently using WSL with Ubuntu on Windows 10, when typing in ./tmpmail, I get the expected result, but when I type in ./tmpmail [ID OF MAIL], I get the following error:

Wrong __data_start/_end pair
Aborted (core dumped)

OS: MacOS

Hi. There is an error when generating a username.
I suggest replacing the username method.

$(date +%s | base64 | tr -dc '[[:alnum:]]' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')

Pacstall is a community-driven AUR-like package manager for Ubuntu. We have an ongoing pull request to add tmpmail to our repository.

We have a few questions for you:

• Would you like to maintain the pacscript (similar to a PKGBUILD) yourself? We can maintain it for you if you decide not to.
• Could you include a section in your documentation showing Pacstall as a valid method of installation for tmpmail for Debian/Ubuntu users? We could make a pull request for that if you want.

The provider 1secmail.com offers several TLDs for its service, I would also like to have this selection in the CLI.
Thanks a lot

I have just installed and run the command tmpmail but it is reporting that the missing dependencies for xclip

I am thinking if it is possible to allow for other clipboard such as wl-copy for wayland?

• abuse
• webmaster
• contact
• postmaster
• hostmaster
• admin

See here:

Maybe implement some Regex to prevent users from creating custom email addresses using these usernames?

I'm trying to understand what's the timezone used for the emails in 1sec mail? Would anyone here know?

Hi!

1secmail service doesn't seem to be working very well, at least for me. It most of the time works but it has frequent down times. Was this script designed only for 1secmail's api or is there any other service it supports, or reported working with this script?

If an email is only sent as plaintext the script does not show the output because the body is delivered in a different field.

{
	"id": 639,
	"from": "[email protected]",
	"subject": "Some subject",
	"date": "2018-06-08 14:33:55",
	"attachments": [{
		"filename": "iometer.pdf",
		"contentType": "application\/pdf",
		"size": 47412
	}],
	"body": "Some message body\n\n",
	"textBody": "Some message body\n\n",
	"htmlBody": ""
}

See section Fetching single message under https://www.1secmail.com/api/

FYI, the latest version number shown on Github is 1.1.4, but the version shown in the tmpmail file itself is 1.1.9.

Hi,

the following line:

USERNAME=$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc a-z | cut -c1-11)

returns the following error on FreeBSD:

tr: Illegal byte sequence

and no valid e-mail address can be generated.
I suggest to add the following line at the top of the script:

export LC_ALL=C

Thanks for the nice tool,
regards,
Riccardo

Would be great to update tmpmail via Homebrew.
Thanks

You are using shuf which is not POSIX-compliant.

I found an answer/solution on stackoverflow.

It seems that the proposed solution is not the most performant, but because you are shuffling only 5 values, that shouldn't be a problem.

Hello,

I'm MB. A very nice and polite guy.

Here is an error message I'm getting. Any way to work around it?

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp’: Read-only file system ./tmpmail: 130: cannot create /tmp/tmpmail/email_address: Directory nonexistent
head: cannot open '/tmp/tmpmail/email_address' for reading: No such file or directory

Not exactly an issue, but reporting an additional feature/enhancement.
Inspired by tmpmail, I have written a kind of pure-pythonic utility to perform similar tasks. Its called pydispo and you can find it at https://github.com/aakash30jan/pydispo. I have tried making it platform-independent and almost without external dependencies, but tried keeping the similar usage pattern as tmpmail.
Thanks @sdushantha , I have already cited tmpmail on my repo.

I'm maintaining AUR package for tmpmail (link) and I've come across a small problem. The latest release (tag v1.2.0) points to a commit 3ba416b, however the version number in the source was not changed until ec2d321. I can also see that copying of the email address was introduced in b28789b as well as bumping the version number once again. I'm not sure which one should be used and weather this was deliberate or a mistake.

Thanks in advance!

For some reason when I generate new email, tmpmail doesn't output new line and my terminal is messed up:

Many sites block the domain 1secmail.com and .net, so an alternative is needed for these cases.
GuerrillaMail also has an api and may be a good option to consider.

http://www.guerrillamail.com/GuerrillaMailAPI.html

How long the received email will stay on the 1secmail server?
I noticed that after a bit is not present anymore. Would be good to know how long will be available.
Thanks

At the moment the flags have to be in a certain order.
For example if I want to view the most recent email and want the output to be as raw text, I have to run tmpmail --text --recent for it work properly. Running tmpmail --recent --text will ignore the --text flag.

By allowing the flags to be used in any order would make it much easier to use.

I have tested and looks like it can't. Can we have this feature possibly? Thanks.

In case you want to document it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmpmail-git/

Also, if you want to maintain the PKGBUILD, hit me up and you can co-maintain or I'll even transfer the ownership to you.

I cant install it:

gCs-MacBook-Pro:~ gc$ curl -L "https://git.io/tmpmail" > tmpmail && chmod +x tmpmail
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:21 --:--:-- 0
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: raw.githubusercontent.com

Any help please?
Thank you in advance.