Receiving your first message
From account created to first email received, in four steps and without a card.
The whole path takes a few minutes. There is nothing to install, no SDK to integrate, and the application you are testing needs to know nothing about us: it will send an email to an address, exactly as it already does.
1. Create the account
From the sign-up page. The free plan asks for no card and goes through no approval on our side.
2. Confirm your address
This is the step that blocks people most often, so it comes early here. A
confirmation link is sent at sign-up and is valid for 24 hours. Until it is opened,
you can sign in and look around, but nothing can be created: no organization, no
inbox, no invitation. The API answers 403 EMAIL_NOT_VERIFIED.
This is not decorative caution: an inbox receives mail, and an unproven address opening one is an address somebody else may have typed.
If the message does not arrive, check the address you entered — it can be corrected
from Settings › Profile for as long as it is unconfirmed, and a new link is sent.
3. Open an inbox
Once the organization exists, you land in your default workspace.
Inboxes › New inbox asks for a name, and nothing else.
The name is there to recognise it, not to address it: the address is derived from an identifier we generate. Give it a description too if several inboxes are going to look alike — see filtres-et-tags.
4. Send a message
Every inbox answers 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 a mail client to try it out. It appears in the list within a second or two.
What you see next: the raw message, its text version, its HTML version, and what was extracted from it — one-time code, links, headers. That is the subject of extraction.
Where to go next
- Reading the message from a test suite: lire-un-message.
- Understanding what your plan includes: quotas-et-retention.
- Organising inboxes once there are several: espaces-de-travail.
What does not exist yet
- API keys. The read API exists, but today it authenticates with the browser session. See cles-api — that is the limit to know about before wiring a test suite.
- SMS numbers. Announced, not open. Nothing in the product offers them today.