When you send an email, everybody can find out it was you who sent it. Common email messages are not anonymous, as well as private. They all include such identification parameter as the IP address of the sender. This information is traceable. It is stored in the Email Headers – an invisible part of the message.

There is a way out. Some specific strategies allow users to send email messages anonymously. You can send anonymous email using special software or online services. In order to send your email anonymously, you need use a remailer. How does it work? A remailer represents an address which serves as a so-to-speak “staging post”.

There are several types of remailers: "pseudo-anonymous" remailers and remailers that don’t retain logs. The pseudo-anonymous remailers offer an email address at which you get the emails then forwarded to your valid address. In other words, you send an email message to a remailer, and it wipes off all original email headers together with the information about your location and IP address, and then sends the message to its final destination. The disadvantage of "pseudo-anonymous" remailers is that they preserve the databases.

As a rule anonymous sending services guarantee that the messages are truly anonymous. The system generates a code for every message. The recipient will get the email with your message from that anonymous service.

For some valid reasons privacy and anonymity can be quite handy. Many people resort to the help of anonymous senders to avoid public recognition. There are more than hundreds of various reasons why people wish to preserve their anonymity. This may be useful if you don’t want to be added to a mailing list. Perhaps, you want to share some vital information with your co-workers. Or maybe you want to tell somebody very personal and delicate information and don’t want to embarrass the person. Or maybe you feel uncomfortable or cannot pluck up your courage to address a person directly. Perhaps you want to comment on a disputable topic, but you’re afraid your opinion will result in insulting, and public mockery.

We hope that you will use this service wisely and responsibly.

Here is a strategy you can use to increase the level of anonymity -chaining remailers. You need to send your message to the first remailer, which forwards it to the second, which in turn forwards it to the third remailer. The latter delivers your message to the intended recipient.

How to tell the second remailer where to forward the message to?