How can I send anonymous email?

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Not without Microsoft's help. In otherwords, for the public: no.

What about tracing it back to the internet service through which it was set up? Can the public do that without a court order?

You can trace it back to hotmail, and that's as far as you can get, so in short ... no.

I never would send my anonymous "hate" mails via yahoo. American companies are forced by law to keep records. If a judge order yahoo to disclose information about your email....then good night.

You better use a free email service somewhere located in the Bahamas ;)

Well, I would like to believe that sending and email from Hotmail means that you are anonymous but that is not what I have heard. This site http://www.johnru.com/active-whois/trace-email.html for one, informs users how to locate the IP address of the original sender, so I would have to say that your information here, that your IP cannot be traced without Microsoft's help is not correct.

For mail sent using Hotmail, the instructions you point to will only find the IP address of a HotMail server, and NOT the IP address of the computer that was used to compose and send the original email. I stand by my article.

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can i send anonymous mail to any body from any smtp server using telnet

No. Most servers disallow random connections to prevent spam.

whenever i telnet to port 25 of yahoo.it is connected but after helo when i write mail from.a message "530 authentication required for help go to help.yahoo.com" appears.what kind of problem is this.does any body know.
immad

I would take it to mean that Yahoo doesn't want you telneting in to send email. You'll need to use an email client that supports sender authentication, and use yoru Yahoo account.

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