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单词 remail
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remailv.

Brit. /ˌriːˈmeɪl/, U.S. /riˈmeɪl/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, mail n.2, mail v.5
Etymology: In sense 1 probably < re- prefix + mail n.2 (compare mail n.2 2a). In sense 2 < re- prefix + mail v.5 (in sense 2b after remailer n.).
1. transitive. U.S. Of a post office: to put (a letter or package received) in a packet with others, for conveyance by post to a new destination. Cf. mail n.2 2a. Obsolete.
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1816 W. Cranch Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 7 257 The letter, etc. was put up and forwarded..in a mail addressed ‘Southern’, containing the letters addressed to places in Virginia, and was thereafter duly and regularly placed in the post-office in Washington on the 1st of August to be re-mailed and sent on in the mail of that day.
1850 Let. in Executive Documents U.S. Senate (32nd Congress, 1st Sess.) No. 50. 175 When addressed to Astoria, as a distributing office, you will open the package and re-mail and forward its contents to the respective offices to which the matter is directed.
1855 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Sept. 388 Letters sent to the respective offices,..there to be remailed and sent to other offices.
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a. transitive. Originally and chiefly North American. To post (a letter, etc.) for a second or further time; = repost v.1 2.
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society > communication > correspondence > sending items > send items [verb (transitive)] > put in post > again
remail1853
repost1864
1853 J. Kingsbury Let. 29 Nov. in J. Elder & D. Weber Trading in Santa Fe (1996) 10 The letter you wish me to enquire for at the Post Office I had received & remailed to you.
1897 Charities Rev. May 283 These blanks are sent, with return envelopes, to be filled out by the teachers and remailed to the office of the society.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 50 10/2 You wouldn't receive your June copy at all, unless you had someone at your old address re-mail it to you.
1987 B. Jackson Fieldwork 290 His brother remailed his letters to her so she wouldn't know where he was.
2006 Lancaster (Pa.) New Era (Nexis) 5 Sept. a8 Lestz remailed the letter to Wyeth in care of the Brandywine River Museum.
b. transitive. Computing. To forward (an email message), esp. after processing intended to conceal the identity of the original sender. Cf. remailer n.
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1994 A. Gaffin Everybody's Guide Internet v. 79 On a mailing list you send your messages to a central moderator, who either remails it to the other people on the list or uses it to compile a periodic ‘digest’ mailed to subscribers.
1997 A. M. Froomkin in B. Kahin & C. Nesson Borders in Cyberspace 139 Alice wants to send an anonymous death threat to Bob via remailers operated by Ted, Ursula, and Victor. If Victor does nothing to mask his e-mail address, Bob will know he was the last to remail the message.
2008 I. Goldberg in A. Acquisti et al. Digital Privacy i. 5 A user sends e-mail to the remailer, which strips off the user's identifying information and remails the message to its intended recipient.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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