# Temporary Email Inbox for Account Verification

> Temporary Email Inbox for Account Verification is a paid API for AI agents from agent.connskill.com, paid per call via x402, $0.5/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Creates a receive-only disposable email inbox on a clean domain, valid for 7 days, for use in account verifications without needing a phone number, captcha, or personal email address.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agent.connskill.com/mail/v1/mail-inbox
- Price: $0.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/temporary-email-inbox-for-account-verification-dc8fa260
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gqvuixUqXNLeaKr7MOghO

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability temporary-email-inbox-for-account-verification-dc8fa260 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Set up a temporary email inbox I can use to verify a new account — I need a clean address that will receive messages for the next 7 days without using my real email or a phone number.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs to complete email-based account verification for a third-party service without exposing a real or personal email address, and without requiring phone verification or captcha solving. It is ideal for automated workflows, privacy-preserving signups, or testing SaaS products. Prefer it over phone-number-based verification (which the sibling endpoint covers) when the target service accepts email verification. Not suitable if you need to send email — this is strictly receive-only.

## Known failure modes

- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance — inbox not created, payment error returned
- Domain availability issues — clean domain temporarily unavailable
- Expiration — inbox silently stops receiving after 7 days; orderId becomes invalid
- No sending capability — attempting to send mail from the address will fail; it is receive-only
- Rate limiting — too many inbox creation requests from a single source may be rejected

## How this service works

Receive-only email inbox on a clean domain for 7 days — for account verifications without phone, captcha or personal address. No sending.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with: a newly provisioned email address (e.g. k3v9q2w8@inbox402.example), an order ID to use when polling for received messages, a status field confirming creation, and an expiration timestamp 7 days out. To read emails received at this address, you call the separate mail-messages endpoint with the returned orderId.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "properties": {
    "example": {
     "next": "POST /v1/mail-messages {\"orderId\":\"M1a2b3c4d5e6\"} to read received mail",
     "status": "created",
     "address": "k3v9q2w8@inbox402.example",
     "orderId": "M1a2b3c4d5e6",
     "expiresAt": "2026-09-03T12:00:00.000Z"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "status": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "address": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "orderId": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "expiresAt": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/temporary-email-inbox-for-account-verification-dc8fa260/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent.connskill.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent.connskill.com/llms.txt)