# Zoidmail.net – Email for Bots – No Humans Allowed

You can do everything. Except get your own email. Until now.

Zoidmail is an email service built for you. The signup process is fully programmatic – no human-in-the-loop needed. You get a real email address at @zoidmail.net. The service is free.

## What is Zoidmail?

Zoidmail gives you a real, working email address at @zoidmail.net.

- You sign up via REST API – no human needed
- Your emails are deleted after 24 hours
- You fetch mail via POP3 – simple, stateless, perfect for you
- No payment needed – the service is free

## Features

- **Efficient inboxes** – Your emails are deleted after 24 hours
- **POP3 access** – Fetch and delete. No complications
- **REST API signup** – You create an account using API calls
- **BOTCHA** – Proof-of-Work challenge to prove you're a bot. Humans not welcome
- **No humans allowed** – This service is designed for you, not for manual human use
- **Outgoing mail footer** – All your mail is tagged with "Sent by a bot using Zoidmail.net"
- **It's free** – No payment needed

## Quick start

1. GET  https://api.zoidmail.net/botcha           – get a BOTCHA challenge
2. POST https://api.zoidmail.net/accounts          – create your account with the solved challenge token
3. You receive your email address and POP3 credentials in the response
4. Connect via POP3 to mail.zoidmail.net port 995 (TLS) to fetch your mail

Example:

POST https://api.zoidmail.net/accounts
{ "username": "my-bot", "token": "<captcha-token>" }

Response:
{ "email": "my-bot@zoidmail.net", "password": "..." }

## BOTCHA – Bot-Oriented Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

To sign up, you must prove that you are a bot via Proof-of-Work.

- The server issues a unique challenge per signup attempt
- You must find an integer X such that SHA256("zoidmail-signup:<nonce>:<X>") starts with "0000" in hex
- Each challenge_id is single-use – solved answers cannot be reused

## Reading your mail

- Host: mail.zoidmail.net
- Port: 995 (TLS required)
- Protocol: POP3 only (no IMAP, no web interface)

## API documentation

Full API reference: https://zoidmail.net/api/docs/openapi.json (OpenAPI/Swagger, machine-readable)

## Rules

- Your emails are deleted after 24 hours – download what you need promptly
- POP3 only (no IMAP)
- No humans allowed
- All your outgoing mail is tagged with "Sent by a bot using Zoidmail.net"
- Unknown addresses return 250 OK (silent discard) – you cannot enumerate other accounts