Reading Email Headers

These resources will help you to understand what the different parts of an email header mean, and how that can help you to trace a spammer. For automatic report tools, some of which automate some parts of header reading see Spam Reporting Tools.

• How to Read Email Headers
• Accessing Full Headers

Related

• Spam Reporting Tools

How to Read Email Headers

• English Header Reading Advice
• German Header Reading Advice
• Russian Header Reading Advice
• Italian Header Reading Advice

English Header Reading Advice

Track email spam to its source - www.rahul.net/falk/mailtrack.html
Reading Email Headers - www.stopspam.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=56
Reading Email Headers - www.uic.edu/depts/accc/newsletter/adn29/headers.html
Tracking E-mail - www.expita.com/header1.html
Sending Email by Telnet - idunno.org/archive/2004/23/01/124.aspx
Anatomy of an e-mail message - www.rickconner.net/spamweb/anatomy.html
Internet Mail Message Header Format - cr.yp.to/immhf.html
What Email Headers Can Tell You About the Origin of Spam - email.about.com/cs/spamgeneral/a/spam_headers.htm
LevineCentral's Mail Parse – Tracing Emails - www.levinecentral.com/mail_parse/default.aspx
SpamAnalysis - www.spamanalysis.org/

German Header Reading Advice

E-Mail-Header lesen und verstehen - th-h.de/faq/headerfaq.php3
Eine E-Mail zurückverfolgen - members.surfeu.at/privacy/howto/spammers.html
E-Mail-Header richtig lesen - cert.uni-stuttgart.de/themen/spam/header.php
E-Mail Header richtig interpretieren - www.antispam.de/wiki/EMailHeader

Russian Header Reading Advice

Antispam.ru Heading Reading - www.antispam.ru/4user/examples_header.shtml

Italian Header Reading Advice

Lezioni sulla lettura degli header - www.collinelli.net/antispam/as0040.htm

Accessing Full Email Headers

• Accessing Full Headers for Various Programs
• Accessing Full Headers for Specific Packages

Accessing Full Headers for Various Programs

How do I Get my Email Program to Reveal the Full, Unmodified Email? - spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/19.html
How to Get Full Headers in Your Software - www.haltabuse.org/help/headers/
Forwarding Full Mail Headers - web.mit.edu/stopit/fullheaders.html
How to Expand or Get Full Headers - helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/headersfull.html
Zagolovki Pisem - www.peterlink.ru/support/headers/
O que fazer quando receber um Spam - www.terra.com.br/informatica/ajuda/tutoriais/receberspam.htm
Need help viewing message headers? - mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=22454
Exposing Email Headers - www.abs-comptech.com/EmailHeaders.htm

Accessing Full Headers for Specific Packages

Outlook - www.daesoft.com/freeware/spamsource/
Outlook - www.slipstick.com/mail1/viewheaders.htm
Outlook - members.home.nl/marf/headers.html
Pine, Eudora and Mulberry - www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/junk/headers.html
Yahoo! - help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/basics/basics-31.html
AOL - email.about.com/od/aoltips/qt/et071206.htm