Receive your first message
From account created to first email received, in four steps and without a card.
Facteur gives you an email address that receives, and an API to read what lands in it. There is nothing to install, and nothing to change in the application you are testing: it will send an email to an address, exactly as it already does.
Allow a few minutes.
1. Create the account
Open the sign-up page and create your account. The free plan asks for no card, and nobody here approves your registration.
2. Confirm your email address
We send a confirmation link as soon as you sign up. Open it: it is valid for 24 hours.
This is the step that blocks people most often, so it comes early here. Until that
link is opened you can sign in and look around the
application, but you cannot create anything in it: no organization, no inbox, no
invitation. The API answers 403 EMAIL_NOT_VERIFIED.
Without this step, anybody could open an inbox on your address and read the mail that arrives in it.
No message? Check the address you entered. Open Settings → Profile to correct it, which stays possible for as long as it is unconfirmed: a new link is sent right away.
3. Open an inbox
You land in your default workspace. Open Inboxes → New inbox and enter a name, for example “Sign-up tests”. It is the only required field.
That name is a label: it helps you find the inbox in the list. It does not appear in the receiving address, which we generate for you, and which never changes.
(Optional) Add a description if several inboxes are going to look alike. See Filters and tags.
4. Send a message
Your inbox receives on a whole domain:
anything@<inbox-identifier>.inbox.facteur.euThe full address is shown at the top of the inbox view, with a copy button. Send a message there, from your application or from your mail client. It appears in the list within a second or two.
Open it. You get the raw message, its text version, its HTML version, and what was extracted from it: the one-time code, the links, the headers. That is the subject of Extraction.
Next steps
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