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#Bitmessage alias how to
#Bitmessage alias registration
#Bitmessage alias password

It allows you to create a human-friendly alias for your Bitmessage address and integrate with popular mail clients like Mozilla Thunderbird.

#Bitmessage alias how to

Shortly after paying your dollar for one month, you'll be able to send messages.įor those on a budget or who don't know how to get their hands on Bitcoins, the online Bitmessage Mail Gateway offers a free webmail service for Bitmessage users. Enter your recipient's email address in the To tab.Īlthough you are able to receive email free of charge, Mailchuck requires a small subscription fee of around one dollar a month, payable in Bitcoin, to send a message ( Figure 5).įigure 5: The first time you attempt to send a message, you will receive a Bitcoin payment address. The From address is simply the Bitmessage address you registered with Mailchuck. To send a message to an email address, simply head over to the Send tab. Fortunately more recent versions of PyBitmessage do away with this.

Mailchuck also provides a relay address, explaining that you need to send email to that address, placing your recipient's email address in the subject line. Make a note of the address to unregister the account.

#Bitmessage alias registration

With luck, you will receive a message to your Bitmessage Inbox stating that your registration request has been accepted. Enter your desired email address and click OK.īitmessage will send an Email gateway registration request to link your Bitmessage address with the email address you just created. This is currently offered by the good people at Mailchuck. In the pop-up window, you will see the first option to register an email address. Right-click on any of your addresses in the Messages tab and select Email gateway. The first is easiest, but it does require some small expense. As such, you have two ways to interface email with Bitmessage. Speaking from experience, however, it's often difficult for privacy-minded individuals to bring others around to their point of view. Email Integrationīitmessage is posited as a secure alternative to email. Specific instructions are available on the Bitmessage website. For the ultra-paranoid, Bitmessage can accept connections as a hidden Tor (. This will naturally take longer, but it will also make your Bitmessages as untraceable as when sending email via the Tor network. Press OK and restart Bitmessage to connect via Tor. Leave Server hostname and Port at their default values ( localhost and 9050). Choose SOCKS5 from the Type drop-down menu. If you have already downloaded and installed Tor, make sure it's running and then head to Settings and click the Network Settings tab. Although it wouldn't be possible to know the exact content of messages you send, traffic correlation could be used to identify you as the sender of a message. The guess is incorrect so we need to edit it below.As impressed as you might be with the ability to send messages easily and securely, network monitoring can still show that you are connected to Bitmessage's P2P network.

Thunderbird will automatically guess IMAP/POP address based on your credentials.

#Bitmessage alias password

Type your BM-address (not the cool alias address) as username, and your BitMessage password as password > Continue.

Create new mail account or open the Mail Account Setup.

An alias is equivalent to your Gmail/Yahoo! Mail address, like instead of the hard-to-remember BM-2cU You can use this alias to send/receive emails with your regular email friends! Go to Alias Page and have on for yourself. You can create a cool alias like per account. Your email address and password deliveredĬhanging password in BitMessage Mail Admin page But you can change this address with a cool alias like for example. The mail address you get looks like BM-2cU it is not so cool, and it is always started with BM. Your username and password for BitMessage Mail is there (if not, check your Spam Box). You Get An Email Account your mail inbox you used to register. It's free (no cost) and it supports IMAP/POP client, a very rare feature of privacy-oriented gratis service. BitMessage E-mail Gateway is an email provider hosted in Switzerland recommended by PrivacyTools.io, PRISM Break, and PRXBX (checked 4 July 2018). Because of this awareness, we may want alternative to Gmail service owned by Google, and some of us will have difficulties to find such gratis (no cost) service with IMAP/POP feature, with privacy protection. We are all more aware today about our online privacy since the global surveillance 2013 case. You will get mail address, which can send/receive emails to regular emails such as and and with ability to delete your account permanently.

The mail client used here is Thunderbird, which is only an example as you can apply same steps to Icedove and other mail clients. This tutorial explains how to create free (no cost) email account at BitMessage E-mail and setup it in mail client with IMAP mode on Ubuntu.