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Track Email header

In addition to the message itself, every email has a header that amounts to a sequential list of how the message came from the originator to you.

This email header normally complies with the standards set in Internet RFC 822. True, some parts of it (although not all) can be deliberately modified by a sender who wants to cover his or her identity. In fact, most people do not know how to do this in a way that can escape detection by a competent analysis of that header.

Of course, the recipient can remove the entire header; this would be effective only if the remnants of the original header were also wiped from the disk, and the ISP that delivered the email (over whom a user is unlikely to have any control) had also deleted all audit records about that email.

Email Service and Spam

Most of the spam mails you receive go to your junk folder anyway, but have you wondered why spamming continue to exist irrespective of advanced spam monitoring technology that is provided by your email service provider.

This is because spammers continue to come up with newer and more innovative ways of luring unsuspecting victims into their scam and are still making profit from spamming. This is one of the reasons most email service providers supply you with a link that says ‘Report Spam’ in case a spam message does come across to your inbox.

This shows that spammers are able to bypass the spam filter put in place by email service providers.

Email Spam

So how do you protect yourself from spam? It is important that you take this initiative yourself, as relying on spam filters may not be effective enough protection. Here is a simple solution to this quandary.

You can use email header to identify the source of an email and determine for yourself if the message you are looking at is legitimate or simply the work of a spammer. So what is an email header?