Word info

remailer

Noun

Meaning

remailer (plural remailers)

(computing) An email service that forwards on the text of emails without identifying information, as a means of providing anonymous email.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

An anonymous remailer is a server that receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and that forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. Source: Internet

By not keeping any list of users and corresponding anonymizing labels for them, a remailer can ensure that any message that has been forwarded leaves no internal information behind that can later be used to break identity confidentiality. Source: Internet

One can not answer a message sent via a Cypherpunk remailer. Source: Internet

In 2014 dizum.com (a Netherlands -based remailer) was seemingly blocked by authorities in Pakistan, because comments an (anonymous) user of that service had made concerning key figures in Islam. Source: Internet

In addition, it is possible to chain two or three remailers, so that each remailer can't know who is sending a message to whom. Source: Internet

In part, he contributed to the cypherpunks movement as one of the longest Anonymous remailer operators. Source: Internet

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