Anonymous e-mail?

[thecrip]

Is there a program that you can download and you can use it with Outlook Express to make your e-mail anonymous?

[Ogi]

I know of a mail provider called mailshack.com

they provide free anonymous email accounts with no ads and good space. But they also support SSL . Which you can use to protect the content of your messages while in transit.

What exactly do you mean by anonymous?

[cpugeniusmv]

You may also be interested in MyTrashMail (http://mytrashmail.com). You can receive mail at any account in their domain, and also send e-mail from any address.

There is no POP/IMAP or SMTP access, but it's still a pretty handy service.

[muskrat_love]

What about Hushmail (http://www.hushmail.com/)? Don't know how anonymous it is, but I've heard it's pretty good.

[crackerjacker]

dodgeit.com
u choose a name but make sure its a weird name cuz everyone can read your email otherwise
for instance
choose stupidclownfacesucksass@dodgeit.com wont have others guess your user name
so u choose a name like this and u can receive email
nuff said

[thecrip]

Basically to make it so my e-mail can't be read by other people. I would still like to use Outlook Express if possible.

[cpugeniusmv]

Basically to make it so my e-mail can't be read by other people. I would still like to use Outlook Express if possible.
You don't want the email you receive to be read by others? Or the email you send?

Nobody can read your received mail without your password.

If nobody can read email you send...well, you may as well write it in another language.

Maybe you mean you want to encrypt your outgoing mail?

[Peter C]

What about Hushmail (http://www.hushmail.com/)? Don't know how anonymous it is, but I've heard it's pretty good.

Used Hushmail for a few years when I was working in China. One college that I worked in passed all emailing through its own server. For a variety of reasons it became fairly quickly obvious that my email was being read. I went with Hush and my mail wasn't being read any more.

Hush really supplies an encrypted email service and one in which messages are sent and received through a secure connection to their server. Basically ,no one can read the mail but the intended recipient (who should be the only one that knows the passphrase for decryption). In any case you can't use it to send anonymous email.

As far as I'm aware software 'solutions' that are installed to your system do not actually achieve the aim of making mail you send out anonymous. To get that you need to use a service that provides an email service that will strip out the 'sent by' information' from the email. That, though, leaves problems with were it came from and the route it took to reach its destination. Information like that is attached to every mail that you receive and send. Someone determined enough could use that information to attempt to back-track to who you are. The rudiments of that kind of thing can be done automatically by super-fast computers of the kinds that governments own. Try this:

http://fly.hiwaay.net/~pspoole/echelon.html

If you want to be anonymous, don't send email.


If what you want is not so much to send email anonymously but simply to store it in a secure way on your system so that only you can access it then the following is a possilbe solution (and one that I use on my system):

Get a software application that allows you to create an encrypted and passphrase protected folder or volume/partition. Create the folder or partition. Now use the option in Outlook Express to move your message store from its default setting to another location. So, you set OE to use the encrypted folder/partition that you now have. Result, no one can attempt to read your mail unless they first get access to the encrypted store.

You do, though, have to remember to make the encrypted folder/partition accessible by the OS before you launch OE. If you don't, then when you launch OE it won' t be able to find the 'new message store. If that happens then by default OE will create a new message store in the old default setting (for your user account if your using WinXP). This isn't as bad as it sounds. So long as you always remember to make accessible your hidden partition/folder then if at any time you launch OE and you find that the message store for your identity has been moved back to its old location then you also know that someone else has being attempting to use OE with your identity.

If you want to try the hidden partition approach I would recommend 'DriveCrypt' - very secure. Free version available for Win98, else it costs.

http://www.securstar.com/

Hope this helps.

[Lehk]

how about hotmail, gmail, or yahoo through an untracable connection, like your neighbors wifi or a local library.

[lichking20]

If you don't want your message to be read maybe try this:

http://www.stealthmessage.com/

It encrypts your message based on a password you provide. Then you send your message to someone. When they check their email, they will be given a link to stealthmessage, whereupon they will need to enter the password to decrypt the meesage. this works only if you know the person to whom you are emailing to because you will need to tell them the password to decrypt the message.

[Stownplayer]

isnt gmail encrypted?

[cpugeniusmv]

isnt gmail encrypted?
No.

Most e-mail is not encrypted at all.

[Malakai1911]

Depends on the level of security


If you want to be totally "anonymous" you can use mixmaster remailers to send messages (soon mixminion("Type 3 Remailer") will be replacing the mixmaster("Type 2 Remailer") remailers.

Mixmaster (Type 2, most widely used): http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/
Mixminion (Type 3, in development): http://mixminion.net/

If you want incoming messages to be recieved "anonymously" then you can use dodgeit and check your mail via a chained proxy.



If you want to use a permanent email address, but transmit and recieve email "securely" from 3rd party interception, you can use PGP/GPG to encrypt and decrypt all of your messages. Couple that with an email service that provides free POP/SMTP support (Like Gmail, which is free, and uses SSL and TLS, nice!).

I prefer using Thunderbird (1.0.2) with the Enigmime (0.91.0) extension, using GnuPG (1.4.1).

Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.0.2-release-notes.html#download
Enigmime: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html
GnuPG: http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/index.html#binaries

[lichking20]

mixmaster remailer are somewhat secure in that someone cant trace you easily. But they are slow. If you want your message delivered fast dont use mixmaster remailers.

here is a web based remailer:

https://mixmaster.autistici.org/cgi-bin/mixemail-user.cgi

security and deilivery time depends on what and/or how many remailers you choose. i tried it and it took on average 2 hours for the recipient to receive the email.