Additional Privacy with Anonymous SMTP
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Anonymous SMTP In A Nutshell
When you send email via any email client (except WebMail),
your computer's Internet address is included in the message headers for all
recipients to see. Depending on who your Internet Service Provider is and
what kind of connection and service you have, this information may be used to determine what region
of the country you are in, what city you are in, or even what your home
address is! Additionally, other information such as what email program
you are using is also available to the recipient. This could be a serious
issue for people very concerned about their privacy.
LuxSci's Anonymous SMTP service provides an excellent way
of keeping all of the functionality of SMTP (sending email) that you
require, while giving you back your privacy. This service receives your
message from your email client via Authenticated SMTP (or Authenticated
Secure SMTP) and then "scrubs" the message, removing all information about
your computer's address, the email program you are using, and all other
non-standard information that happens to be in there. Your message is
then re-emailed to the intended recipients.
The end result is that the recipients get messages that
look just like they would have without the anonymous service, except that
now they can only track the message back to your LuxSci SMTP server. They
know who you are, based on your email address and your message content,
but they have no way of knowing where you are or what email programs you
are using!
What this service DOESN'T do is provide a method for potential spammers
to conceal their identity. LuxSci's anonymous SMTP service logs all information that
it scrubs from the messages and tracks all activity for internal auditing
purposes. So, while your recipients do not know your computer address,
LuxSci does - as does your account administrator. This prevents this
service from providing any benefit to people wishing to send
unsolicited or forged email; LuxSci can quickly respond to
complaints or abuse, identify the sender, and terminate the account
and/or bring legal measures to bear.
What this service DOES do is provide a
level of privacy in the sending of email from your email programs
that is functionally equivalent to the level of privacy that you get
from sending through our WebMail interface.
Read more about LuxSci's SMTP Services.
LuxSci's Anonymous SMTP Service
Anyone who orders "SMTP
Relaying" services from LuxSci automatically has access to LuxSci's
Anonymous SMTP service. The only functional difference is:
- You configure your email client to send your outbound email
via an alternate port, instead of the standard port of 25.
- Outbound email messages may be delayed 5-10 minutes compared to
non-anonymous sending. This accounts for the process of queuing the
messages and scrubbing them.
LuxSci's anonymous SMTP service is compatible with LuxSci's
secure SMTP service. So, you can easily configure your email client to
send your email both anonymously AND securely (over SSL).
LuxSci's anonymous SMTP service scrubs all SMTP headers
from your outbound messages except for the standard ones: From, To, Cc,
Bcc, Subject, Date, Reply-To, MIME-Version, Content-Type, X-Priority,
X-MSMail-Priority, Importance, Content-Transfer-Encoding,
Return-Receipt-To, References, In-Reply-To,
and Disposition-Notification-To.
The IP address from which you are sending is logged for
auditing purposes, just like it is with normal SMTP. This means that you,
your account administrator, and LuxSci support can see reports of your
SMTP connections and the IP addresses you are connecting from. However,
no one else can access this information. Thus you have good privacy and
good security - auditing.
LuxSci's Anonymous SMTP Service is complete, easy to use, and part of
any email and web hosting package when you order "SMTP Relaying". Please
contact us if you have any
questions!
Ordering
To order Anonymous SMTP services at LuxSci, use our
Custom Package Wizard
to design your email services package. Make sure to select
"SMTP" services in Step 3.
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