How To Send Completely Anonymous Emails

Have you ever had the need to send completely anonymous emails to someone? Perhaps you were trying to prank one of your friends, or wanted to shyly declare your love.
Perhaps you wanted to report illegal activity or abuse, but didn’t want to get caught up in all it. Going to a telephone booth is easy, but how about emails?
There are services on the web – mostly online utilities – that allow you to send anonymous emails. You can send simple messages from, and to everywhere in the world, without having to reveal your true identity.
Today we’ll have a look at those services and present to you the three that stand out, following in no particular order.

AnonEmail

AnonEmail is a service by AnonyMouse. It allows you to send anonymous emails by resending your email several time through random nodes, thus making it impossible to trace back.

In AnonEmail, you can fill in your recipient, the subject, and a short plain-text message. Contrary to many other services AnonEmail does not (seem to) log your IP. However, we do urge you not to use it for anything illegal.

As an extra security measure, AnonEmail will then wait for an unknown period before sending your email along. Why? So no one  will be able to prove your ‘guilt’ based on time/location, or make geographic presumptions based on timezones.
It remains the question whether this particular functionality should be obligatory – as it might be a serious disadvantage if you don’t need it.

Formmail Anonymous Mailer

Formmail Anonymous Mailer, developed by Infinite Monkeys & Company, is a great alternative to AnonEmail.
Apart from the usual functionality, this website allows you to specify a sender’s address as well, allowing you to seemingly send it from a normal mail account. You can also select the specific remailers you want the website to use, from a list of 17 possibilities. Note that the message will take increasingly longer to send when re-rooting it through multiple remailers.
After pressing send, you’ll be able to watch the progress of your message through the different nodes. I used three remailers for a prank mail, and it took about a minute or two to send.

The debatable downside of Formmail Anonymous Mailer is that it logs your IP-addresses to keep you from doing anything stupid. They won’t include it in the emails you send, but if you do anything illegal, they’ll give it up.

Send Anonymous Mail

Like the name implies, this one is a third anonymous mailing utility. Although it lacks the complete anonymity of AnonEmail, and the remailer control of Formmail, this is the most simple one around.
You’ll also be able to specify a sender’s address, a ’supposed’ origin point for your secret message. Nothing else fancy is included, but if you’re looking for simplicity, this is your guy.

Again, this one logs your IP address, so you’ll have another reason not to try anything shady.

Send Anonymous Email

This free tool lets you simply send an email message.
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How To Send Email To Any Cell Phone (for Free)

Want to send a short email to a friend and get it delivered to his/her cell phone as SMS? If you know your friends’ phone numbers and the carrier they are on then you can easily send emails to their cell phones directly from your email program.

Here is how it works:
Most of mobile carriers offer free Email To SMS gateways which can be used to forward simple text emails to a mobile phones. And the good news, majority of those gateways are free and available to the general public.
You just need to know the number and the carrier of the recipient to start emailing them to mobile phone. Below we put together a table listing free email to SMS gateways for different carriers. You can use as quick reference both for US and international mobile numbers.

Free Email To SMS Gateways (Major US Carriers)

Carrier	Email to SMS Gateway
Alltel	[10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com Example: 1234567890@message.alltel.com
AT&T (formerly Cingular)	[10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net [10-digit phone number]@mms.att.net (MMS) [10-digit phone number]@cingularme.com Example: 1234567890@txt.att.net
Boost Mobile	[10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com Example: 1234567890@myboostmobile.com
Nextel (now Sprint Nextel)	[10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com Example: 1234567890@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)	[10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com [10-digit phone number]@pm.sprint.com (MMS) Example: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile	[10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net Example: 1234567890@tmomail.net
US Cellular	[10-digit phone number]email.uscc.net (SMS) [10-digit phone number]@mms.uscc.net (MMS) Example: 1234567890@email.uscc.net
Verizon	[10-digit phone number]@vtext.com [10-digit phone number]@vzwpix.com (MMS) Example: 1234567890@vtext.com
Virgin Mobile USA	[10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com Example: 1234567890@vmobl.com

Free Email To SMS Gateways (International + Smaller US)

These are all I could find from Wikipedia and other sources. If you’re aware of any other ones please share them in comments and I’ll add them to the list.

Carrier	Email to SMS Gateway
7-11 Speakout (USA GSM)	number@cingularme.com
Airtel (Karnataka, India)	number@airtelkk.com
Airtel Wireless (Montana, USA)	number@sms.airtelmontana.com
Alaska Communications Systems	number@msg.acsalaska.com
Aql	number@text.aql.com
AT&T Enterprise Paging	number@page.att.net
BigRedGiant Mobile Solutions	number@tachyonsms.co.uk
Bell Mobility & Solo Mobile (Canada)	number@txt.bell.ca
BPL Mobile (Mumbai, India)	number@bplmobile.com
Cellular One (Dobson)	number@mobile.celloneusa.com
Cingular (Postpaid)	number@cingularme.com
Centennial Wireless	number@cwemail.com
Cingular (GoPhone prepaid)	number@cingularme.com (SMS)
Claro (Brasil)	number@clarotorpedo.com.br
Claro (Nicaragua)	number@ideasclaro-ca.com
Comcel	number@comcel.com.co
Cricket	number@sms.mycricket.com (SMS)
CTI	number@sms.ctimovil.com.ar
Emtel (Mauritius)	number@emtelworld.net
Fido (Canada)	number@fido.ca
General Communications Inc.	number@msg.gci.net
Globalstar (satellite)	number@msg.globalstarusa.com
Helio	number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Illinois Valley Cellular	number@ivctext.com
Iridium (satellite)	number@msg.iridium.com
Iusacell	number@rek2.com.mx
i wireless	number.iws@iwspcs.net
Koodo Mobile (Canada)	number@msg.koodomobile.com
LMT (Latvia)	number@sms.lmt.lv
Meteor (Ireland)	number@sms.mymeteor.ie
Mero Mobile (Nepal)	977number@sms.spicenepal.com
MetroPCS	number@mymetropcs.com
Movicom (Argentina)	number@sms.movistar.net.ar
Mobitel (Sri Lanka)	number@sms.mobitel.lk
Movistar (Colombia)	number@movistar.com.co
MTN (South Africa)	number@sms.co.za
MTS (Canada)	number@text.mtsmobility.com
Nextel (United States)	number@messaging.nextel.com
Nextel (Argentina)	TwoWay.11number@nextel.net.ar
Orange Polska (Poland)	9digit@orange.pl
Personal (Argentina)	number@alertas.personal.com.ar
Plus GSM (Poland)	+48number@text.plusgsm.pl
President’s Choice (Canada)	number@txt.bell.ca
Qwest	number@qwestmp.com
Rogers (Canada)	number@pcs.rogers.com
SL Interactive (Australia)	number@slinteractive.com.au
Sasktel (Canada)	number@sms.sasktel.com
Setar Mobile email (Aruba)	297+number@mas.aw
Suncom	number@tms.suncom.com
T-Mobile (Austria)	number@sms.t-mobile.at
T-Mobile (UK)	number@t-mobile.uk.net
Telus Mobility (Canada)	number@msg.telus.com
Thumb Cellular	number@sms.thumbcellular.com
Tigo (Formerly Ola)	number@sms.tigo.com.co
Tracfone (prepaid)	number@mmst5.tracfone.com
Unicel	number@utext.com
Virgin Mobile (Canada)	number@vmobile.ca
Vodacom (South Africa)	number@voda.co.za
Vodafone (Italy)	number@sms.vodafone.it
YCC	number@sms.ycc.ru
MobiPCS (Hawaii only)	number@mobipcs.net

UPDATES:
If you can’t find a gatewayd for your current provider here, check out following links:

• http://www.tech-faq.com/send-text-messages-free.shtml
• http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-email-to-sms/gateway-list/
• http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm

If you are aware of any other free sms to email gateways please add it in comments. Also let us know whether you tried any of the above and your experience with it.

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Send an email tomorrow—or next week

You've got a fancy system: the latest this and the greatest that. It can do just about anything you want. Except send an email tomorrow. Yeah, it's an important note you need to send out, and it's on your mind right this minute, but you really don't want it to go out until tomorrow, or next week, or even just an hour or two from now. Good luck with that.
DeferredSender is a free service that lets you send an email that won't get delivered until you want it to. Create your email with whatever tool you usually use—Outlook, Eudora, or any other desktop email client—or even your favorite online service, like Gmail, or Hotmail. Give your note a special address to get it to the DeferredSender folks, add a line or two of information about where you'd like your message to go and when you'd like it sent, and these guys take care of the whole remembering part. Through the wonder of modern technology, when your chosen time arrives, they send your email, and it looks like it came right from you. (If you dig through the headers, you'll see that it passed through their servers, but you've got to be really motivated to dig that deep.)
DeferredSender is a free service. You have to create a free account to use it, but it's really not any more complicated than that.
Download DeferredSender

Are you Sure your Email isn’t being Hacked?

In the interests of full disclosure, I didn’t come up with this idea. I read about it in a computer magazine a year or two back but of course when I wanted to refer to it for this article, I couldn’t find it! But someone on Digg eventually managed to find it so here is the original article if you want to see it.

As email providers give away more and more storage space, more and more personal information is being stored in those accounts. People are increasingly using their email accounts for more than just email - it has become their online document storage area with backup documents such as passwords, bank account numbers, account usernames, scans of correspondence and much more. Even if you don’t use your email for this purpose, you may still be inadvertantly revealing personal information in general conversation emails to family and close friends. A 6GB Gmail account or an unlimited space Yahoo account is potentially an information bonanza source for identity thieves who manage to figure out your email password and then go snooping.

But if someone HAS cracked your email password, it may not be apparent to you. A snooper can easily read an email then mark it as unread again. So the best thing to do would be to set up an “electronic tripwire” so if someone breaks into your account, you’ll know about it.

Here’s how to do it :

1. Sign up for a website hit counter at www.onestatfree.com. You can leave a fake name and whatever URL you want (I used Google.com for mine).

2. You will then receive a welcome email from OneStat with a text attachment called OneStatScript.txt. Download this attachment to your computer and then delete the email (you don’t want any email snoopers finding it later). But before deleting the email, write down your OneStat account number as you will need it later.

3. Change the name of the text document to something that will make the email snooper salivate such as passwordlist. Also change the file format from a text document to a website page. So make it something like passwordlist.htm .

4. Email this newly-renamed file as an attachment to the email account you want to monitor. Make sure the email subject title also lures the snooper in (maybe something like List of Passwords. You get the idea :).

5. The trap is now set. Basically if someone opens the email and opens the attachment, OneStat will record a hit. If you then log into your OneStat account say once a day, you will see how many hits you have had to your attachment.

The OneStat account page then gives you details on each “visitor” including the date and time they accessed the web document and more importantly their location and IP address!

So how does having this information help you? Well first of all, it will alert you to change your password to something stronger. Secondly, if you see the snooper’s location and you only know one or two people there then it narrows down your list of potential suspects.

By the way, I recommended signing up for One Stat because the author of the original idea mentioned them. But if you know of any other hit counter services that send text documents to your email address, then please mention them in the comments. I don’t have any financial advantage recommending One Stat so I am perfectly happy to consider alternative companies.

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Manage all your existing IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy to use application.

Customize the look of digsby with application skins	Lots of message themes to choose from to personalize conversations	Manage all your email accounts right from digsby
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Digsby helps you manage all your IM, email, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. Digsby lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. It provides notifications when new e-mails arrive and lets you perform actions such as "Mark as Read" or "Report Spam" without having to go to your inbox while also keeping you up-to-date on what's happening on your social networks with popup notifications and a newsfeed of recent events for Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.