How do you make sense of email headers?

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  • stocktrader23
    Let's do some business.
    • Jan 2003
    • 18781

    #1

    How do you make sense of email headers?

    For instance what does this mean?

    Return-path: <[email protected]>
    Received: from ms-mta-01 (ms-mta-01-smtp [10.93.38.11])
    by ms-mss-01.texas.rr.com
    (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003))
    with ESMTP id <[email protected]>; Fri,
    05 Dec 2003 05:10:55 -0600 (CST)
    Received: from txmx02.mgw.rr.com (txmx02.mgw.rr.com [24.93.41.201])
    by ms-mta-01.texas.rr.com
    (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003))
    with ESMTP id <[email protected]>; Fri,
    05 Dec 2003 06:10:55 -0500 (EST)
    Received: from belpsb.minsk.by (psych14.Psychiatry.McGill.CA [132.216.54.15])
    by txmx02.mgw.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hB5BAnDZ005842; Fri,
    05 Dec 2003 06:10:52 -0500 (EST)
    Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 07:19:16 +0000
    From: Barney Oconnell <[email protected]>
    Subject: check out free paris hilton footage
    To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
    [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
    Message-id: <NIEMMPFFLJIKMIIBLOPBONIAMOAA.barneyoconnelliv@arv ed.de>
    MIME-version: 1.0
    X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
    X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
    Content-type: text/html
    Content-transfer-encoding: base64
    X-Priority: 3
    X-MSMail-priority: Normal
    X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine


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  • Im A Troll
    Registered User
    • Dec 2003
    • 4

    #2
    good question

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    • nathan_f
      Confirmed User
      • Sep 2003
      • 3983

      #3
      Have a read:

      http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers.html

      Hope that helps a bit.

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        #4
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        • fuzebox
          making it rain
          • Oct 2003
          • 22359

          #5
          Looks like it's being sent from a workstation at mcgill university's psych department...

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