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Definitions of Anonymous remailer:

A SMTP server that allows sending anonymous email messages. It removes or changes the "From" field of all messages that it processes.
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In real life it is quite easy to send someone a letter anonymously. However, on the Internet, email is normally associated with a user account on a given host computer. An anonymous remailer is a service that forwards a message on to its recipient after stripping off any possible identifying headers. The recipient has no way, therefore, of knowing who sent the message. Anonymous remailers are controversial because of the potential for abuse.
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An anonymous remailer is a server computer which receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and which forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. There are Cypherpunk anonymous remailers, Mixmaster anonymous remailers, and nym servers, among others which differ in how they work, in the policies they adopt, and in the type of attack on anonymity of email they can (are intended to) resist. ...
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