ANKIT FADIA(EMAIL TRACING)

Email Tracing

• Tracing an Email means locating the original sender and getting to know the IP address of the network from which the email was actually generated.
• Locating Original sender is not always possible but we have tried our best to get it. For this we have to be familiar with Email structure.
•  As we all know the travelling of the Email. Each message has exactly one header, which is structured in fields. Email header contains all the valuable information about the path and the original sender of the Email.

Header Fields

• From:- Email Address where the Email has come from.
• To:- Email address of the destination.
• Subject:- Subject of Email.
• Date:- The local time of the server when the message was sent.
• Bcc:- Blind Carbon Copy.
• Cc:- Carbon copy.
• Content type:- Information about how the message hae to be displayed, usually a MIME type.
• Received:- Tracking information generated by the mail servers that have previously handled a message.
• Reply To:- Address that should be used to reply to the sender.

You can get IP Address of the sender from the header and then can locate the sender.