Create or remove a disposable email address
Hide your real email address from online vendors, mailing lists, hackers, and spammers.
How to create or remove a disposable email address
To create a disposable email address
From your webmail inbox:
- Select the gear icon
and then More Settings. - Choose Mailboxes, then the down arrow after Disposable email address.
- Select Add, enter the base name you want to use, then select Next.
- Enter a keyword, your sending name, and a description.
- Select Save.
Heads up: When you respond to an email, your reply will show your sending name and email address.
To remove a disposable email address
From your webmail inbox:
- Select the gear icon and then More Settings.
- Choose Mailboxes, then the down arrow after Disposable email address.
- Choose the disposable email address you want to remove.
- Select Delete address.
How to use disposable email addresses
- All disposable email addresses follow this format: basename-keyword@att.net.
- Your base name is part of every disposable email address. Once you choose it, you can’t change it.
- You can create up to 500 disposable addresses, using a different keyword for each.
- You can use a keyword that makes sense to you, but it can’t have spaces or symbols.
For Yahoo.com email aliases
Have a Yahoo.com email address set up as an alias on your AT&T Mail account?
On May 6, 2019, we changed our sign-in process and separated your AT&T Mail and yahoo.com email accounts. This means that your alias Yahoo emails will now be sent to your new Yahoo email account.
Going forward:
On May 6, 2019, we changed our sign-in process and separated your AT&T Mail and yahoo.com email accounts. This means that your alias Yahoo emails will now be sent to your new Yahoo email account.
Going forward:
- All your existing AT&T Mail, contacts, and calendar entries stays with your AT&T Mail account.
- AT&T - Use your AT&T email address to sign in to your AT&T Mail.
- Yahoo - Use your Yahoo email address to sign in to your new yahoo.com email account.
- The password for your Yahoo email account will be the same one you use for your current AT&T Mail account.
- Want to change your Yahoo password? No worries. Change it at yahoo.com.
- Looking for your personalized info on Yahoo? Sign in to your Yahoo account.
Last updated: April 24, 2024