# Test an email without creating an account

> Get an address that receives, send it an email, read what lands: sender, subject, verification code and links, already extracted. No account, no card, hosted in France.
> https://facteur.eu/en/test-an-email

## Send an email, see what a test would receive

One click gives you an address that receives mail for an hour. Send it a message: this page shows what your test suite would read over the API, with nothing installed on your side.

- Click, and the address is yours.
- Send it an email from your mail client or your application.
- The message appears here, with its code and links already extracted.

## What the trial does, and what it does not

The trial shows the product; it does not replace it, and its bounds are there for that. They are written here before you run into them.

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- Trial, no account
- Free account

- How long the address lives
- Messages received
- Addresses
- Reading
- Attachments
- Retention
- Stability

## A trial address is not confidential

There is no account, so there is nothing to authenticate: anyone who knows the address reads the mail that lands on it. That is the price of zero friction, and it is written in the terms rather than discovered afterwards.

- Never a password reset link, never a code that opens a real account.
- Never an identity document, an invoice, a payslip.
- Never personal data about anybody but you.

## The same message, read by your code

What this page displays, a test suite reads over the API. No sleep, no retry loop: the call blocks until the message lands and hands back the code already extracted.

- **One inbox, unlimited addresses** : Nothing to provision before a test: every address of the inbox lands, including the ones a test invents as it uses them.
- **Waiting is a call, not a loop** : The request stays open for up to five minutes and returns the moment mail arrives. That is what takes the sleep() calls out of a suite, and the false reds with them.
- **The code and the links are already extracted** : Verification codes, links and headers come out of the message before you read it: your test asserts on a value instead of writing a regular expression.

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