The 5-Minute Mailbox (opens in new tab)

The email mailbox just became an API resource, and that matters far more than the setup time it saves. For most of software history, a real email address — one that sends, receives, and threads — was an artifact of IT process. Someone created it in an admin console, someone else configured the client, and your application got access through OAuth consent screens and refresh tokens borrowed from a human. Compare that to how you get a database, a queue, or a TLS cert today: one API call, one ID...