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What is an email header
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Friday April 23, 2010
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Friday April 23, 2010
An email header contains a lot of interesting information about a received message. When it was sent and from who, sure, but you can also
find the IP address from an email
, and even the path an email took before it reached you. We'll show youwhat an email header is
and where you can find it.Download this episode now
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- The "email header" contains information about senders and recipients for the selected email.
- While it's not usually necessary, we'll show you
- In most email clients, like Thunderbird, you normally see just basic information.
- In Thunderbird, if you click View and then Headers and select All, you'll see the display expand.
- This is the complete "email header" and it contains all the routing information for that email.
- It shows what servers the email passed through, IP addresses, and so on.
- For the most part, you don't need all that information but it is handy to know where to find it.
- While it's not usually necessary, we'll show you
where to find the email header
.- In most email clients, like Thunderbird, you normally see just basic information.
- In Thunderbird, if you click View and then Headers and select All, you'll see the display expand.
- This is the complete "email header" and it contains all the routing information for that email.
- It shows what servers the email passed through, IP addresses, and so on.
- For the most part, you don't need all that information but it is handy to know where to find it.
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