disposable inboxes for qa teams

When two testers debug the same flow, they both need to see the same message. The usual workaround — one person screenshots and pastes into Slack — is slow and loses the rendered HTML.

A disposable inbox has its own URL. Drop the link into your bug ticket and anyone on the team can open it for as long as the inbox is alive.

• staging: qa-stg-checkout@ephemail.io
• preview: qa-pr-{pr-number}@ephemail.io
• local: a fresh throwaway every run

Predictable addresses + auto-expiring data means tests are reproducible without leaving behind a years-long archive.

The API exposes a long-poll endpoint so end-to-end tests don't have to guess at delivery latency.

const msg = await ephemail.waitForMessage({
  address: "qa-stg-checkout@ephemail.io",
  subjectContains: "verify your account",
  timeoutMs: 30_000,
});

await page.goto(extractFirstLink(msg.body));