How to Trace E-Mail through E-mail Header Investigation?

Aditya Pratap Singh
2 min readOct 8, 2021

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Hello Guys, once again, your most welcome in this blog. I’m very excited to complete this post quickly because this post is going to be an interesting post for you. In this post, we will talk about “How to Trace E-Mail through E-mail Header Investigation?” The email consist of the different components some are visible to us while some are not, the header is one of them and in this article, we are going to see how you can trace email source through headers.

What is an email Header?

The email header is a fragment of code in an HTML email that carries information about the sender, receiver, email’s route to the inbox, and numerous authentication details. The email header always comes before the email body.

What are the functions of email headers?

How to Trace E-Mail through E-mail Header Investigation?

Here are some steps to trace the email header-

STEP1: Select and open the email you want to trace.

Open the email header, you can do that by clicking on the 3 dot menu and selecting the option as ‘show original’

STEP4: Paste your header there and click on the Submit button.

STEP5: Finally, You will have your information.

Email header can be used for a different purposes but more than anything it is helpful for email routing and verify the source.

LAST WORD: This is enough for now, I hope you have enjoyed this post, we will meet very soon as always with an interesting article, and thank you so much for reading this article post.

Originally published at https://www.myteachworld.com on October 8, 2021.

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