OmniMix • Features

OmniMix now offers you as a Windows user a convenient way to benefit from the Mixmaster remailer network. It works as a switchbox between your mail resp. news client and the outer world and either sends your messages directly to their destinations or routes them through the Mixmaster remailer network in order to make them anonymous. If you need a replyable mail address, OmniMix assists you in setting up an account at one of the existing nym servers and afterwards automatically transforms outgoing and incoming messages accordingly.



If there's no necessity of anonymous communication, simply use OmniMix to add features your client software itself is lacking:

•	Send and receive messages from external servers through secured connections (with SSL / TLS / Tor).
•	Add recipient related hashcash tokens to your messages to increase their chances to pass spam filters.
•	Protect your mail with automatic Whole Message Encryption (WME) and by doing so reduce the amount of information you reveal and your efforts for PGP en- resp. decryption to a minimum.

To the side of your mail / news client OmniMix offers three kinds of servers:

•	Outgoing mail (SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
•	Incoming mail (POP3 = Post Office Protocol - Version 3)
•	News messages (NNTP = Network News Transfer Protocol)

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Client communication bases on a multithreading model, so there's no harm in accessing OmniMix by several clients at the same time.

Message routing is defined by parameters either set within OmniMix or transmitted through specific headers of the single message itself.

OmniMix doesn't store any message for a longer period of time. The messages it receives are immediately passed on, either 'normally' or transformed into an anonymous mail, in case of a news message usually directed to a mail2news service. The resulting mail is then transmitted by the integrated SMTP client (via a secure SSL/TLS connection - if supported by the counterpart station). If an error hampering transmission occurs in the course of one of these steps, it's reported to the waiting mail / news client, which then reserves the message for further retries. Only if OmniMix succeeds in sending the message to the Internet, it gives a 'mission completed' state back to your client, which one thereby keeps full control over your data until they really are on their way. So there's no caching within the Mixmaster or OmniMix system!