anonymize email

January 10, 2006 9:09 AM

How do I keep my IP address anonymous when sending email through Outlook or Thunderbird?
posted by saffron to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Use a gmail account, using gmail's SMTP. It strips identifying IP addresses.
posted by skallas at 9:14 AM on January 10, 2006

As skallas alludes to, your IP address is stamped on outgoing emails by your SMTP server, not your client. To circumvent this, you must either use a proxy server (hard to find for mail) or switch to an SMTP server that doesn't stamp IPs.
posted by ori at 9:56 AM on January 10, 2006

When you send boatloads of spam, we will still know where to find you.
posted by b1tr0t at 11:44 AM on January 10, 2006

I think firefox has a useful add on for that.
posted by merlin17 at 3:25 PM on January 10, 2006

The finding of saffron or the stripping of IPs?!
posted by dance at 7:58 PM on February 24, 2006