Getting original sender of email [tutorial]

Ritesh Warke On Friday, January 7, 2011

The purpose of this guide is to show the process involved in tracing an email received. The first step required for tracing an email is: Finding out the headers of the email.

What are email headers?
Email headers are lines added at the top of an email message that are used by servers as the email goes on route to get delivered. Generally email clients only show the standard ?To, From and Subject? headers, but actually there are more.

So how you can see it?

For Gmail
Step 1: Once Logged into your Gmail Account open the Email whose headers you want to view.
Step 2: Click on the ?More Options? link in the message next to the date of the email.
Step 3: Now click the ?Show Original? link.

Step 4: This link will pop-up a new window with the headers and the body of the message.

For Hotmail
Step 1: Once logged in, click on the "Options" link in the upper navigation bar.
Step 2: Now click on the "Mail Display Settings" link.
Step 3: Change the "Message Headers" option to "Full" and click ok.
Step 4: Go to your inbox and open any one of your email. You emails show now contain additional headers.

For Yahoo
Step 1: Once logged in, click on the "Options" link in the upper navigation bar.
Step 2: Now click on the "General Preferences" link.
Step 3: In the paragraph titled Messages and locate the "Headers" heading and select "All".
Step 4: Go to your inbox and open any one of your email. You emails show now contain additional headers.

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