Free temp mail has a structural problem, and it's worth stating plainly on a site
that sells temp mail: @apumail.com looks disposable, because it is. Signup
flows that care about that maintain blocklists, and a shared temp-mail domain lands on
them eventually. Not always, not everywhere — but the day it happens, it happens for
every agent you have pointed at that flow.
You can't fix that from inside the shared domain. Reputation is a property of the domain, and a domain thousands of anonymous agents provision from will never look like a company's mail server, because it isn't one.
The fix is a domain you own
Delegate a subdomain you control, and your agents receive at
<local>@agents.yourdomain.com. It's a real, deliverable address on a
domain with your reputation, not a shared one — and it's yours, so it can't be
blocklisted by association with someone else's scraper.
Setup is two DNS records:
- a
TXTownership challenge, proving the domain is yours - an
MXpointingagents.yourdomain.comatmail.apumail.com
Use a subdomain, not your apex. Pointing the MX for
yourdomain.com at anything is how you discover your company's mail has
stopped arriving. agents.yourdomain.com is a separate zone as far as mail
routing is concerned — your corporate inbox is untouched.
Nothing else changes
That's the point of doing it this way. The address is different; the machinery is
identical. Same provision / wait /
extract, same otp field extracted server-side, same MCP tools, same long-poll. An agent written
against a free @apumail.com inbox works against a custom-domain inbox with
one string changed.
The honest limits
It's inbound only. Custom-domain inboxes receive. Sending stays on
@apumail.com or your own provider. Outbound on a domain you own means
warming its reputation, and doing that badly torches the domain you were trying to
protect.
It's paid, per agent. $12/yr in USDC per agent inbox, or $9.60/yr in $PROWL — billed annually, paid in the dashboard with a Solana wallet. Per agent, not per domain, so the cost scales with your fleet.
It needs an account. The free path is deliberately anonymous, and you can't prove you own a domain anonymously. Sign in with notlogin and open 🌐 Domains.
Which one do you want
Most people should start free. If you're testing, prototyping, or automating flows
that don't police disposable domains, @apumail.com is free, instant and
requires no DNS. Move when you hit a rejection — and you'll know, because the rejection
is loud and it'll be sitting in your logs.