How to decode Email header ?

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  Kaustubh Katdare

  yugal kishore

  Hi I want to know that is there a way to decode an e-mail header to find out who or from where that email have sent. thanks

  The email header will tell you some information as the host from which the email has actually originated. Take a look at this sample header -
  
  
  
  Look at the information it reveals -
  
  1. Exact date and time at which the email was initiated.
  2. Correct delivery address
  3. IP address of the sender - this can further reveal more information.
  4. Information about the MTA, Unique ID of the message
  5. Unique ID of the email
  6. Which email client was used to send the email - MS office outlook (and build number)
  
  and so on. Most of the times you may use the email header information to track whether the recipient is indeed the one that is authorised 'sender'. It's easy to fake sender email 'domain' but the email header will reveal all the information.
  
  Does that answer your questions?
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  yugal kishore

  you r right but using IP of mail header i cannot reach sender location.this this static IP of service provider How can reach exact location and get MAC address of that computer as investigation agency do.?
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  Jeffrey Arulraj

  yugal kishore

  you r right but using IP of mail header i cannot reach sender location.this this static IP of service provider How can reach exact location and get MAC address of that computer as investigation agency do.?

  This seems more like you want to set your own hacking hub 😛
  But no offence buddy do tell your motive for us to help you as we don;t want any problems here.
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  Agili - You've just copy-pasted content from Wikipedia. It doesn't add any value to the discussions because we all know what emails are.
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  Scorpion007

  Conqueror

  This seems more like you want to set your own hacking hub 😛
  But no offence buddy do tell your motive for us to help you as we don;t want any problems here.

  hey I m also interested to know how .some one can reach your place by email. yugal kishore is right that email header provide few information. if u knows something then tell me also please
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  Scorpion007

  this website also provide to trace email header to some extent .simply copy paste your header and you will get useful information
  #-Link-Snipped-#
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  poganinja

  yugal kishore

  Hi I want to know that is there a way to decode an e-mail header to find out who or from where that email have sent. thanks

  
  
  Hi yes you can easily find out from where you have received email just by tracing ip address of that email ...You can easily trace the ip address from e-mail id using sites like #-Link-Snipped-# here they help you to track the ip address from the e-mail header .If you have received any mail from them then just copy the e-mail header from the received mail and paste it in the text box found in tha above site which i posted here .Then they display the Ip address of the e-mail sender along with information like country ,ISP name .IF you need to get exact location of that ip user then visit IP-Details: Your IP Address here they are providing ip search tool .Just by giving the ip address to them they will display the ISP address ,country ,network name and so on using this details you can contact the ISP provider and get details about that particular user.
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  Manish Goyal

  I don't think it is really possible to track exact user location based on IP
  
  For eg , the above mentioned link is giving my current location is Noida but my location right now is Ferozepur, Indo Pak Border (Quite far from Noida)
  
  As far as Investigation agency are concerned, then there ISP plays a are very crucial role
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  Anand Tamariya

  yugal kishore

  you r right but using IP of mail header i cannot reach sender location.this this static IP of service provider How can reach exact location and get MAC address of that computer as investigation agency do.?

  If you are an investigation agencies, you'll have access to ISPs switches logs which you can use to find out the origin IP.