Analyzing E-mail Headers And Tracking E-mail

[youneverknow]

From Michigan State University:

http://abuse.msu.edu/email-tracking.html

This could be helpful to some.

youneverknow

[TCH-BillH]

I have not read the link in detail. But I did read a few points.

 

Excellent find from what I can tell for those trying to figure out e-mail headers. Wished I had something like this years ago. I think we need a new section to start collecting some of these great tools.

 

Thanks for passing it on!

[Guest helpbytes]

As well as doing that with your head, there are tools that will do it too:

 

http://www.spamcop.net (notice the .net)

 

Made for reporting spam, it will trace the headers to the real source, it uses its own and third party databases to cross check all data, it has a high accuracy rate, and will report spam for you, but if you wont to track email for another reason, it helps.

 

http://spam-abuse.sourceforge.net/

 

A tool that you can use on your computer to do a similar thing.

 

Verifying the received lines can be a long and boring process, as they can be inserted by the original abuser, and as many servers insert the domain name given (SMTP starts with a helo, where client gives himself a name), you have to match IPs against domain names, then there are extra difficulties, misconfigured servers, a server may have two network interfaces ...