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# Getting started

You need an email address you already read, and about a minute.

## 1. Create your account

Sign up at [app.yeymail.com/signup](https://app.yeymail.com/signup). The trial runs for **7 days and asks for no card**. You can also use **Continue with Google**, which skips the password step.

Confirm the verification email we send you. Until you do, we can't forward anything to that address. An unverified destination is how an alias service gets turned into a tool for mail-bombing strangers, so we don't allow it.

## 2. Make your first alias

In **Aliases**, choose **New alias**. You pick the part before the `@`, or take a generated one if you'd rather not think about it.

That address is live immediately. Mail sent to it lands in the inbox you signed up with, arriving from a YeyMail reply address that shows the original sender's name and address: `Sender (real@address) via your-alias@yeymail.com`.

## 3. Use a different one for every site

This is the whole idea, and it only pays off if you do it consistently. Give `netflix@` to Netflix and `gym@` to the gym. When one of them starts receiving things you never asked for, you know precisely who leaked or sold your address, and you can switch off that one alias without touching anything else.

## What the trial includes

The trial is the Starter feature set with lighter limits, so the shape of the product is the same as what you'd pay for:

|                             | During the trial | Starter   | Plus      |
| --------------------------- | ---------------- | --------- | --------- |
| Aliases on your own domains | Unlimited        | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Addresses on `@yeymail.com` | 25               | 500       | 5,000     |
| Custom domains              | 1                | 5         | Unlimited |
| Destination inboxes         | 2                | 10        | Unlimited |
| Forwarded messages per day  | 20               | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Alias replies per day       | 100              | 100       | Unlimited |
| Team seats                  | 1                | 1         | 5         |

The 20-per-day forwarding cap is the only limit that materially changes how the trial feels. It exists because card-free signups are the cheap end of an abuse attack, not to hurry you along.

## Next

* [Aliases](/using-yeymail/aliases.md): labelling, switching off, and how many you can really have
* [Two-factor authentication](/using-yeymail/two-factor-authentication.md): worth ten minutes now, because this account controls where all your mail goes
* [Custom domains](/using-yeymail/custom-domains.md): the version we'd recommend if you own a domain
* [Billing](/using-yeymail/billing.md): what happens at the end of the 7 days


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