Send Emails Quickly Without Using an Account

The ability to send emails and receive them is a big part of being online and a real time saver if there are a lot of people you wish to keep in contact with. It’s a real money saver too, as a few years back a lot of people didn’t have computers, and contact was either with a phone call or a letter. These days, just about everyone who has a computer has an email account and in a lot of cases several of them.

One of the minor drawbacks of emails is you need a way to send and receive them which can either be through clients like Windows Live Mail, Outlook or Thunderbird, or logging on to web services like Hotmail or Gmail. Whichever way you choose, it does mean somewhere down the line you will have enter your username and password and this becomes a security and privacy worry if the machine you are currently at isn’t yours.

While it can’t check your emails for you, there is a useful little utility around called Mail Anyone Anywhere which as the name suggests, allows you to send emails from any PC, without the need of logging into any mail accounts. This has some advantages such as not revealing your email address if you don’t want the recipient to have it, and not having to enter any password details on another PC.

The program is a standalone executable meaning it just needs to be downloaded and run to get started.

Mail Anyone Anywhere is pretty simple to use, with no other options to get your head around apart those in the main window. The ‘To’ in address section is the email address you want to send to, and ‘from’ is the name of the sender. The ‘Subject’ section is obviously the same as sending from any other client, and the main box is for the message.

Multiple attachments can be added by pressing the ‘Add’ button and selecting what to attach, or drag and drop into the bottom window. The program uses the Gmail service to perform the sending so any limitations Gmail has such as 25MB file size limit or not being able to send executables will apply no matter what service you are sending to. Send the message by clicking the ‘Tick‘ button. After a short while the message will be received by the recipient in the usual manner.

Although I would not recommend you send emails of a highly personal or important nature using this service, it is very useful in sending quick messages and attachments from computers other than your own, or if you don’t want to / cannot do so from your normal email accounts.

Compatible with Windows XP, Vista and 7

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