Use case

Temporary email for CI pipelines

A pipeline cannot read a human inbox. Giving it a temporary one makes email verification just another automated step.

Where email shows up in pipelines

  • Smoke tests of production signup.
  • Staging environments with real mail delivery.
  • Agents that provision accounts on third-party services.

Practical tips

  • Generate the address at the start of the job so it appears in the logs.
  • Fail with a clear message if no mail arrives within your timeout.
  • Never commit tokens: store the Emailsify API token in your CI secret store.

Frequently asked questions

Where do I keep the API token?

In your CI provider's encrypted secrets, injected as an environment variable or header at run time.

Will tests leave data behind?

Mail expires after 2 hours. Accounts you create in the service under test are yours to clean up.

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