remailingn.
/ˌriːˈmeɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /riˈmeɪlɪŋ/ 1. Originally and chiefly North American. The action or an act of posting a letter, etc., for a second or further time. Cf. reposting n.1
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1857 J. M. Peters in W. B. Lord Deb. Constit. Convent. State of Iowa 1051/1 I supposed that the expense of the re-mailing was to be charged to the state.
1908 Messenger July 215 The re-mailing of Catholic papers and magazines to deserving individuals and families.
1951 K. N. Cameron in N. I. White et al. Exam. of Shelley Legend 96 The weak link in this provenance is clearly the remailing of the letter in 1859.
1988 T. Harris Silence of Lambs 293 This evening he was catching up on his correspondence, which he would have to send through a remailing service in London.
2007 D. A. Dillman Mail & Internet Surv. (ed. 2) 189 The remailing of questionnaires requires establishing new mailout dates for follow-up correspondence.
2. Computing. The action or process of remailing an email in order to conceal the identity of the original sender. Usually attributive. Cf. remailer n.
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1993 Midrange Syst. (Nexis) 11 May 43 The Cypherpunks have fielded a number of experimental anonymous remailing systems for E-mail.
2000 J. Flynn Next President iii. 66 Remailing is very convenient when you have to communicate with someone but don't want them to know where the hell you are.
2005 Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram (Nexis) 3 Mar. e9 Spammers are..forbidden from using phony identification, such as hiding behind an anonymous remailing service.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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