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If you want to adopt this PKGBUILD, make sure you adopth BOTH, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmpmail and https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmpmail-git . For consistency sake.

This PKGBUILD (still) uses https://github.com/sdushantha/tmpmail

As of, 2025-08-26, there is now another repo, https://github.com/shivaenigma/tmpmail using another API provider, emptyinbox.me

tmpmail is a command line utility written in POSIX bash that
allows you to create multiple inboxes and receive temporary emails to these inboxes. It uses
emptyinbox.me API to receive emails.

Not sure if it is 100% free. Something with crypto wallets required ???

The API and the service itself , https://emptyinbox.me, also seems to be opensource, https://github.com/blockonomics/emptyinbox-me https://emptyinbox.me

An alternative for users looking for something similar, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mailtm-bin, https://github.com/ABGEO/mailtm

It still lasted for a while in 2024.

But, as of, 2025-02-26, the service providing this api, has not been available for some months now, https://www.1secmail.com.

$ curl -IL https://www.1secmail.com/

HTTP/2 403
server: nginx/1.25.2
date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:06:24 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
vary: Accept-Encoding

$ ping www.1secmail.com

PING www.1secmail.com (178.32.61.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- www.1secmail.com ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1026ms

$ ping 1secmail.com

PING 1secmail.com (178.32.61.35) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 1secmail.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

It is now safe to delete both this "tmpmail" and the "tmpmail-git" from the AUR.

As I've said here before, I'm happy to hand over maintenance of this package to ayone with some verifiable history. I'm not using Arch or any derivatives anymore, so just give a shout if you want to take over maintenance.

@m040601

I'm not sure. Probably not. Upstream had its last commit more than 2 years ago, so it feels like a dead end to me.

Also, since tmpmail (the app, not the package) uses /tmp/tmpmail as its “cache”, only one user per computer can use this (on a first-come-first-served base). Instead it should use a location in each user's home directory. But at this point it feels like a waste of time to submit a bug report.

Perhaps the app should be re-invented under another name.

Thanks for asking, though.

@kseistrup

Maintainer does not respond. Last upd this PKGBUILD is 2020.

His other PGKBUILD were also last touched in 2021,

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=b12f&SeB=m&O=0&SB=l&SO=d

Would you like to adopt both "tmpmail" and "tmpmail-git" ?

Thanks for packaging this.

Would you care to include the manpage and the README in the package?

A suggestion for a working PKGBUILD (that also installs the required LICENSE) can be found at https://gist.github.com/kseistrup/11ede7c0ce5b8d0af5d31292d328be52

Cheers.

Thanks for the PKGBUILD for this "extremely" usefull tool.

There is another PKGBUILD "tmpmail" which was recently abandoned by its maintainer, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tmpmail

Would you like to adopt it ?

Would be great it the same pair of eyes could keep up watching both.

Thanks in advance.

You should specify what this package provides and conflicts with (tmpmail) as per VCS packaging guidelines https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_guidelines#Guidelines.