A: Safe Mail is a free service that will convert any email address into an image. All you do is enter the address, hit Go and an image will be created containing your email address. The filename is encoded and pretty damn impossible to decode back to your email address. A spambot for example won't be able to read your email address, since it's no longer actual text in the page's sourcecode, it's an image.

A: No. Safe Mail is a free service that will convert any email address into an image. If the email address you enter doesn't exist, Safe Mail will not create it. If you wish to create your own email address and email inbox then I suggest any of these: Gmail, Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail.

A: No. The PNG image that is created has a transparent background. But not all browsers (like Internet Explorer) support transparent PNG. Also, for the browsers who do support it, Safe Mail uses anti-aliasing for the font so it looks nicer, this requires you to specify some sort of background color. If it somewhat matches the color of the surface you are going to use it on, it will work just fine.

A: No. Safe Mail will create an email image and that's it. No other actions are taken. Your email address is not stored in a database or anything like that. Safe Mail is a service that prevents spam. For more (detailed) information on how we handle information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

A: The form uses Javascript for special functions, such as custom color and the color preview. Make sure you have Javascript enabled.

A: That's perfectly normal. I choose not to let the example resize because it wouldn't always fit in the spot where it is right now. If the font height would be any bigger the lay-out of the form would stretch up.

A: I try to keep them on for all eternity. You could of course host the email image yourself, that way you always have it when you need it. But you don't have to.

A: That is an MD5 hash. MD5 is a powerful encoding algorithm that I use to encode the filename for your email image. MD5 does not have a decoding (reversal) algorithm which makes it very secure.

A: Safe Mail has been tested in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Mozilla Firefox 1.0+. Due to the use of W3C XHTML 1.0 Strict coding, Safe Mail should also work correctly in Netscape Navigator 6+, Mozilla 1.0+, Opera Browser 5+ and Safari.
If you are experiencing difficulties viewing Safe Mail, please send me an email at .

A: It wasn't being used, so I removed it with the release of Safe Mail v.1.1.

A: Because I wanted to make it possible for people that do not have the resources themselves to safeguard their email address in a way that is more secure that simply masking it with fake characters.

A: I used PHP for the server side programming, this includes just about everything. The email images are generated with GD Graphics Library. All of the programming was done with Macromedia's Dreamweaver. The website output is in XHTML 1.0 Strict, with CSS 2 for the styling.

You can contact me at .