In brief: 2.0.2 just submitted to Big Boss Repo – should be there in few hours.

Why 2.0.2, why 2.0.1 is not working?

As I’ve received many reports that version 2.0.1 doesn’t work for some of you – as I’ve noticed in comments and in emails sent to me. But you know what? For most of you 2.0 was working great. So why have I posted 2.0.1 update? It’s simple. Anonymous is a tool, that I gave into your hands. It was made to sent funny emails, surprise your friends who you mail with, jokes, to catch cheating wives/husbands/bf/gf, but of course I did suppose that some people will use it to send death threats, phishing, spam messages, bank frauds and so many more. People call me to help in tracing the original author of the message, because of those serious reasons. Unfortunately I cannot help them, because just for my safety and your privacy I don’t log those email – they are sent and not cached anywhere (at least not by me). Remember that you (not me) sending such an email commit a crime or whatever the status of such an activity is in your country.

Ok, ok, but what was the reason of publishing 2.0.1 if 2.0 works perfectly. Well, one of the emails sent from you, was received by somebody, who has decided to take some actions to trace the original author of this message. Of course in header of this email, was clearly stated that the msg was sent from chris-software.com. As long as I couldn’t (and still can’t and won’t in the near future) provide any more information, he/she tried to check my hosting provider if they can help. In fact, the result was the suspension of the whole chris-software.com domain (with dozen of other services – including Anonymous). I had to move the Anonymous API to somewhere else in order to run my website again. And 2.0.1 is just pointing to the new servers.

Hello Everyone.

It’s been long time since I published Anonymous 1.0. Maybe a year now. Since that time, Anonymous was one of the most controversial applications. It allows you to send fake emails, and if recipient doesn’t know how to read extended headers (99% does not – believe me), he / she thinks it was send from the email account you provided without any password.

Remember, I’m programmer, I create the tool, give it to others and it’s only up to you, what you are going to do with it. I really hope that my app isn’t used to try phishing, stealing bank accounts as much as for joke or to catch cheating wife – or husband .

Anonymous is also one of those apps I received a lot of feedback – either it generally doesn’t work, or it works sometimes, or it works no longer, or it works with one email accounts, and doesn’t with Gmail, Mobile Me and others. I also received many emails asking me about adding Reply-To field, and images.

Taking into consideration all of your ideas and feedback, when I’ve found (at last) a little bit more “free” time I upgraded it. The interface is completely different. Now you enter everything into the table, that looks like the Settings application. Whenever you are expected to provide email address, you can easily pick one from address book on your device. And yes, I added the Reply-To field. What does it mean? Let show it on the example: You receive the email, it says it’s sent from John Smith <johnsmith@example.com>. While answering the message it will be sent to somebody, whose email was provided in Reply-To, not johnsmith@example.com. The API that actually sends emails “lives” now on better – more reliable server. It’s still sends only plain, text messages, sorry no images this time!

Ohh and best of all: it works with many more email servers, GMail, Yahoo, Mobile Me and many many more.

That’s why current version of Anonymous is not 1.01, or 1.1, but  Anonymous 2.0.

And of course, Apple doesn’t like this app, nothing astonishing here, but as usual you will find this application in Cydia in BigBoss Repository.